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Slow Kill
2007
This video installation appropriates National Geographic footage of “the kill” a term given to the chase and the inevitable death of one animal by another. This gruesome scene is marketed and sold to tourists as a version of a “real” African experience and therefore something they have to see. It is portrayed in nearly every documentary film and thus becomes a mediated image that is understood to its audience; it is familiar to them and thus looses its sensation. The footage is slowed down to become still images, which stay static for 24 seconds before changing to the next.
This video installation appropriates National Geographic footage of “the kill” a term given to the chase and the inevitable death of one animal by another. This gruesome scene is marketed and sold to tourists as a version of a “real” African experience and therefore something they have to see. It is portrayed in nearly every documentary film and thus becomes a mediated image that is understood to its audience; it is familiar to them and thus looses its sensation. The footage is slowed down to become still images, which stay static for 24 seconds before changing to the next.