Filmography

Filmography on product placement compiled and annotated by Lesley Husbands

Value-Added Cinema (USA 2003, 47 min.) Steve Seid and Peter Conheim

Steve Seid, Video Curator for Pacific Film Archive and Peter Conheim of Negativland present a finely tuned montage of egregious product placement shots, drawing on 70 (commercial) films"removing the gratuitous and unnecessary plots and leaving behind just the exhilarating core of consumerism: product placement, tie-ins and cross-promotions (review by http://www.sfindie.com/archive-indiefest04/films/value_detail.html)

Enjoy (USA 14 mins)
Gordon Winiemko and Julie Wyman

The film chronicling its makers' obsession with a shining emblem of modern culture: a gigantic, electric neon Coca-Cola Sign. And yet, far from one story, Enjoy is several, packaged perversely as a series of meticulously crafted TV commercial simulations, each one offering up a different view of The Sign from its domination of the public landscape down to its relationship with the personal "impulse" for pleasure, the veritable will to "enjoy." (film synopsis from Gordon Winiemko"s website: http://www.enjoythesign.com/enjoy/)

Email him to buy DVD of his work including Enjoy: info@enjoythesign.com http://www.enjoythesign.com/dvd/index.html http://www.undergroundfilm.org/films/detail.tcl?wid=1001533

Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Featuring Robert McChesney
Media Education Foundation

"This video connects the decline of journalism to the profit motives of the mega-corporations that own the media. Based on McChesney's award-winning book, Rich Media, Poor Democracy questions how media policy decisions get made, examines the way our media system affects news coverage, and offers suggestions for reclaiming our media - asking if there is a connection between independent, public media and a vibrant healthy democracy." (MEF)

Posted by matt at March 6, 2005 02:41 PM