If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION

1985 | 17 minutes | 5.0 ★ (3)

If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION
  • Overview

    In a fusion of text and image, Rosler re-presents the NBC Nightly News and other broadcast reports to analyze their deceptive syntax and capture the confusion intentionally inserted into the news script. The artist addresses the fallibility of electronic transmission by emphasizing the distortion and absurdities that occur as a result of technical interference. Stressing the fact that there's never a straight story, Rosler asserts her presence in a character-genererated text that irolls over the manipulated images, isolating excerpts from her sources. In Rosler's barrage of media information, the formal structure is inseparable from her political analysis.

  • Release Date

    18 July 1985

  • DirectingMartha Rosler
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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