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David Politzer's video works are frankly intimate,
straightforward, and at times hilarious. The vagaries of
contemporary social interaction and the overlooked questions that they
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With the installation piece Hanging Baggage,
Politzer creates two alter egos that duel for our attention on opposing
outdated or obsolete television sets suspended by a series of pulleys
and ropes. Under obvious gravitational stress, the two tubes
examine duel stains in American popular |
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In Rio Macho Politzer tackles the manly virtues associated with the American West while examining modern society's inability to differentiate between the actual historical West and the long list of Hollywood Westerns that have shaped the myth. In an off-beat variation of the "buddy picture", Politzer and his video partner visit the scenic splendors of Monument Valley, riff on John Ford and John Wayne films, reflect on horsemanship, and finally share a duet around the old campfire. |
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Politzer manages to
make video art that is both engaging and substantive without resorting
to operatic excess, tedium, rarefied intellectualism or the post-modern
polemics that often plague the medium. He happily acknowledges the
connection between movies, television and video. He is not interested in
distancing himself from videos popular predecessors, but rather in using
video as a window within a window, to reveal these popular mediums
inherent weaknesses and our own addiction to them. Stephen Fleming, 2008
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