Film
Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes
1980 · 5m
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Overview
Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a deconstructive twist. In a syncopated collage of appropriated footage (including a TV commercial for Sergio Valente jeans) and a young woman drinking Remy on a commuter train platform, Birnbaum calls attention to how mass media advertising uses a woman's body as a vehicle for selling products. In a stylized pastiche that she terms "a snack-en-route with a pretty girl, animated trains, updated Bacharach muzak (Brazilian style), and pouring Remy," Birnbaum turns the tables on the media's use of woman as commodity.
Crew
- Dara BirnbaumDirector
Details
- Release date
- May 5, 1980
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 5m
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