Synopsis
One of the major pieces by Bruce Conner, who mainly works using collage, or in a broader sense, Found Footage. Found Footage is a practice in which the artist constructs the film with filmed by others, and thereby deconstructing and reconstructing the original intentions. And the end project is a film of its own. CONNER makes a collage out of his own film of a naked dancing woman, and footage of Mickey Mouse, war documentaries, commercials, and westerns, edited to the music of Ray CHarles’ ‘Tell me what I say.’ With his films CONNER attacked the banality of pop culture and war. In this way, maybe the film should be called ‘The Great Ray Charles’ instead of ‘Cosmic Ray.’ (PARK Dong-hyun)