A seemingly endless parade of empty platitudes and paradoxical life affirmations trouble entitlement and question who determines and owns the American Dream. Original footage serves as visuals for a slightly redacted found audio track from a 1960 film in the public domain called “Your Name Here”, produced by The Calvin Company as a spoof on the industrial film.

Director's Statement

Out-of-place in her inexhaustible wardrobe of slinky gowns à la Vanna White, a woman holds aloft a series of digitally composited 3D signs, advertising platitudes to a barren landscape, yet marching to a soundtrack full of pretension and nationalism. Empty yet prescriptive, tongue-in-cheek phrases such as "live large" and "survival of the fittest" create uncomfortable juxtapositions with the public domain audio track produced by The Calvin Company as a spoof industrial film production in the 1960s (eerily ahead of its time). The juxtaposition brings up questions of entitlement, colonialism, how meaning is created and demanded of our lives by society and mass culture, for whom, and at what cost?

Category: Experimental, Award Winner.

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