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Perfect Leader

Max Almy

1983 00:04:15 United StatesEnglishColor4:3Video

Description

A satire of the political television spot, Perfect Leader shows that ideology is the product and power is the payoff. The process of political imagemaking and the marketing of a candidate is revealed, as an omnipotent computer manufactures the perfect candidate, offering up three political types: Mr. Nice Guy, an evangelist, and an Orwellian Big Brother. Behind the candidates, symbols of political promises quickly degenerate into icons of oppression and nuclear war.

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About Max Almy

Max Almy crystallizes cultural clichés into biting commentary in tapes employing a narrative format and a strong sense of theater to explore the uneasy relationship between humans and technology. Using sophisticated production techniques, often with an ironic twist, her work questions the values of contemporary society—especially those of speed, efficiency, and consumerism. Almy is the Dean of the School fo Digital Media at Savannah College of Art and Design, GA.