This Unfortunate Thing Between Us
| 导演： | Phil Collins |
| 制片国家/地区： | 德国 |
| 类型： | |
| 年代： | 2011 |
| 片长： | 60分钟 |
| 豆瓣评分： | 0 |
| 影伴评分： | 0 |
剧情简介
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us by Phil Collins adopts the appearance and language of a televised shopping network, with repeated sales pitches, viewer phone-ins, network personalities, telephone operators, and product information scrolling across the screen. But instead of selling jewelry, bakeware, and treadmills, a crew of actors, porn workers, and musicians host a program... (展开全部)
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us by Phil Collins adopts the appearance and language of a televised shopping network, with repeated sales pitches, viewer phone-ins, network personalities, telephone operators, and product information scrolling across the screen. But instead of selling jewelry, bakeware, and treadmills, a crew of actors, porn workers, and musicians host a program called TUTBU TV, which offers real life experiences. For a promotional price of only €9.99, home viewers were able to call in and interview for an opportunity to play a protagonist in a Stasi-style interrogation scene, act in a Victorian-era porno, or stage their final dramatic hours in a hospital. The project was conducted in a Berlin theater in 2011 and broadcast live nationally on German public television over two evenings. On the first night, television viewers watched performances of the experiences on offer, and three lucky callers were selected by Collins and flown to Berlin. On the second evening, the callers took on the leading roles in the scenarios they had purchased⎯live on national television.
Merging the formats of shopping channel and reality television, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reflects on consumer obsession with lifestyles–from the rich and famous to down and out–mediated by the omnipresent digital technology of the screen. The work explores the alienating impact of our engrained desire to both create and devour visual experiences via social media, cable television, and streaming networks, raising important questions about technology's unrequited promise to connect us.
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us by Phil Collins adopts the appearance and language of a televised shopping network, with repeated sales pitches, viewer phone-ins, network personalities, telephone operators, and product information scrolling across the screen. But instead of selling jewelry, bakeware, and treadmills, a crew of actors, porn workers, and musicians host a program... (展开全部)
This Unfortunate Thing Between Us by Phil Collins adopts the appearance and language of a televised shopping network, with repeated sales pitches, viewer phone-ins, network personalities, telephone operators, and product information scrolling across the screen. But instead of selling jewelry, bakeware, and treadmills, a crew of actors, porn workers, and musicians host a program called TUTBU TV, which offers real life experiences. For a promotional price of only €9.99, home viewers were able to call in and interview for an opportunity to play a protagonist in a Stasi-style interrogation scene, act in a Victorian-era porno, or stage their final dramatic hours in a hospital. The project was conducted in a Berlin theater in 2011 and broadcast live nationally on German public television over two evenings. On the first night, television viewers watched performances of the experiences on offer, and three lucky callers were selected by Collins and flown to Berlin. On the second evening, the callers took on the leading roles in the scenarios they had purchased⎯live on national television.
Merging the formats of shopping channel and reality television, This Unfortunate Thing Between Us reflects on consumer obsession with lifestyles–from the rich and famous to down and out–mediated by the omnipresent digital technology of the screen. The work explores the alienating impact of our engrained desire to both create and devour visual experiences via social media, cable television, and streaming networks, raising important questions about technology's unrequited promise to connect us.
