VIDEO

Downtown, 2001
VHS 10min.
Edited by Kate Johnson, EZTV Media

Text by Keith Antar Mason
Collection of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center & Archive

Created in response to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, this video uses appropriated footage as homage to the 1976 film King Kong. The soundtrack of Petula Clark’s Downtown plays on a loop and text by two co-workers who eventually must leap to their deaths is placed throughout the video.