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Postcard from Sun City, Arizona (2004)
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Documentary, Comedy · 3m
Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with a female convict extolling the benefits of her time on Sherriff Joe Arpaio's chain gang. It is two different kinds of sale jobs working at cross-purposes. Oppenheimer takes the luster off the idealistic advertising images through video distortion and electronic interference and cuts-up both the video and audio tracks until the weird poetry of the chain gang prisoner's lessons in life and death gives the commercial presentation a creepy disconnection from any kind of living ideal. It follows A BRIEF HISTORY OF PARADISE AS TOLD BY THE COCKROACHES and MARKET UPDATE as another sharp jab at consumerism as an illusory promise.
Crew
- Director
- Joshua Oppenheimer
Details
- Release date
- 2004-05-01
- Runtime
- 3m
- Genres
- Documentary, Comedy
- Original language
- EN