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The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination

The Zapruder Footage: An Investigation of Consensual Hallucination

1999 · 20 min

Various permutations and combinations of the Zapruder footage of the assassination of JFK. Intended as an investigation of the footage as visual, experiential, and cultural document. In the USA this footage is both notorious and invisible; seldom actually seen, it is very well known; when seen, it remains opaque. This work is intended to add a level of "transparency" to original. It is set to Jajouka music in order to bring to the foreground the ritual aspects of this visual, mechanical; and media historical event. For some reason I had a memory of that footage being black and white.

Directed by Keith Sanborn

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