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The Bell, the Digger, and the Tropical Pharmacy (2013)
Directed by Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla
· 21m
This video was shot in a US-owned pharmaceutical plant in Cidra, Puerto Rico. It records the sounds and movements of a “sonic digger,” whose bucket has been replaced by a large cast-iron bell that destroys the interior of the building. The modified machine is thus transformed into a “counter-memorial” instrument that marks the occasion of the closure of this significant workplace, a site associated with progress and health. Through music, it excavates the historical connection between medicine, sickness and cure, and the neocolonial framework of US-Puerto Rico relations embedded in the very fabric of the building.
Crew
- Director
- Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla
Details
- Release date
- 2013-01-01
- Runtime
- 21m
- Original language
- EN