Angel Dust
- Video
- 2009
- 9m
Angel Dust exploits the fragmented and timeless world of Google Earth to suggest the impact and experience of Robert Moses' unrealized project for the Mid-Manhattan Expressway. It juxtaposes... Read allAngel Dust exploits the fragmented and timeless world of Google Earth to suggest the impact and experience of Robert Moses' unrealized project for the Mid-Manhattan Expressway. It juxtaposes Moses's optimistic belief in progress with Walter Benjamin's view of history as a series ... Read allAngel Dust exploits the fragmented and timeless world of Google Earth to suggest the impact and experience of Robert Moses' unrealized project for the Mid-Manhattan Expressway. It juxtaposes Moses's optimistic belief in progress with Walter Benjamin's view of history as a series of disasters, and uses these competing views to structure the film. Several passages acros... Read all