29 Oct 2024
Used Car Salesman
This experimental short film follows a used car salesman... or a politician... or a man painting a toilet red.
Transcribed Whims
Representations of manipulated, incoherent, unclear communication in either a personal relationship, from authority/institution, or between media and audience, followed by a conversation on communication itself. 2021-2022.
0h 2min
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