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Animal Charm: Golden Digest
Animal Charm: Golden Digest

Animal Charm: Golden Digest

Genres

Documentary

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Animal Charm makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of tic-ridden babble, they force television to not make sense. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals an overall 'essence' of mass culture that would not be apprehended otherwise. Videos such as Stuffing, Ashley, and Lightfoot Fever upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing, revealing how advertising creates anxiety, how culture constructs "nature" and how conventional morality is dictated through seemingly neutral images. By forcing television to convulse like a raving lunatic, we might finally hear what it is actually saying.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

86 mins

Rating

5/10

Release Date

01 January 1996

Country

United States of America

Cast

Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits

Himself (Archival Footage)

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Himself (archival footage)

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