Homeland
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Documentary footage and clips from prime-time TV are mixed ingeniously in this moody short film about the empty architecture of modern life. *** The mythology of present-day Corporate America can be experienced in its most concentrated form on television. As commercials promise diversion through consumption and news anchors blandly reinforce Administration position, the good life would seem as close as the nearest mall. But where does myth end and reality begin? Homeland is a provocative mix of images drawn from documentary and 'found footage' sources that raises more questions in five minutes than the average film attempts in 90. Set to a hypnotic, moody score by the band Seaworthy, Homeland wonders aloud what kind of life we are exporting to the rest of the world.
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