Spin and Political Advertisements

Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities? contemptuous plans for their viewers come full circle in SPIN (1995, 58 min., video).

TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel tightly spun fabric of television, a system which silences public debates and furthers the intolerance of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the new SPIN moves through the L.A. Rebellion and floating TV talk show known as the 1992 U.S. presidential election with important lessons for viewing the upcoming 1996 elections. Clips from POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS 1998, 45 min., video) will also be screened to show the evolution of political advertising over the past thirty years. Muntadas and Reese have meticulously edited this compilation of televised political commercials, demonstrating the ?selling? of public offices in a country where presidents have become products.