Pause: The Video You Don't Shoot Could be Your Own
You don't need original footage to make a video--just some simple editing equipment and an active imagination.
Early in this century, "found objects" or "ready-mades" appeared in art galleries and museums. Artists placed ordinary manufactured objects on pedestals for public appreciation. Why? Were they trying to renew our estimation of ordinary things? Were they trying to deconstruct our semiotics? Nah, they were just trying to make a buck. One of the most notorious found objects was Marcel Duchamp's urinal signed "R. Mutt 1917." Perhaps he was just trying to make a splash - but he made a buck too.
If Duchamp can get away with this, why not makers of videos? How about some "found video," i.e. video made of found clips? Why not assemble videos from all that footage collecting dust in your cupboard and littering the path you take to the garage? How about using shots from the dozens of video cassettes you skirt past at work every day without giving them a second thought? Why not make something of the tapes you shove aside from under your pillow at …
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