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Lost Art: A Cargo Cult Romance

Directed by Vera Frenkel
Canada, 1986 (video art, 28 minutes, colour, English)
Lost Art: A Cargo Cult Romance
Image: © V tape

Film Description:
"In Lost Art: A Cargo Cult Romance, Vera Frenkel addresses the question of value and meaning-making in relation to artworks and other cultural objects. Stemming from this phenomenon, questions of power, consumerism, and other (neoliberal) 'millennial fantasies' are explored through a wide-ranging narrative which incorporates elements of the documentary style. Lost Art tells the story of a 1977 painting created at the first International Seminar of Rendering in Banff, Alberta. The work in question is a rendering of a winged prison toilet composed by four individuals (Jean Duryea, Wanda Nowotko, Doug Haynes, and Doug Morton) which subsequently vanished."
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