Ye another discovery I would not have made with UBU.com, People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett) made this beautifully-layered, deep rumination on the nature of the forward movement of technology, the roles played by each segment, and the importance of seeing that, in the end, we're all trapped, going boldly forward because there is no reverse.
It takes a 1950 industrial film of the same name, and layers hundreds of other images, moving and static, in with it, giving it a feel that seems to exist in the video boundaries between the work of filmmakers like Bruce Conner, Larry Jordan, or Harry Smith, and video artists like Pippiloti Rist or Peter Campus. She's commenting on the force of technology development and how, post-WWII, it became all encompassing.
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