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Shooter

Marc Schwartzberg

1999 00:01:22 United StatesEnglish4:3Hi8 video

Description

Shooter explores the idea of overt manliness, exposing it to be a flaccid gesture and an exercise in posturing. In the video, I assume the persona of a metal head wandering an urban landscape, making threatening yet empty gestures to passersby to create an exaggerated sense of power and machismo. I use three different songs by Motorhead, that are never allowed to get past the opening guitar riffs, to further construct a sense of masculinity that falls back onto itself. I also utilize humor to facilitate exposing the paradoxes contained within my actions.

-- Marc Schwartzberg

This title is only available on Suitable Video, Volume 1.

About Marc Schwartzberg

My work explores the natural by constructing and deconstructing artifices in our daily modern products, relationships, diet, and everyday lives. I utilize classic visual systems to present these paradoxes of the artificial by playing with concepts of the sublime, often coupled with a sense of humor and whimsy. My work tries to establish connections with the real and the unreal as it relates to our bodies and psyches’ utilizing photography and video, incorporating a performance aspect at times.

I received an MFA in photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and I currently work as a fine art and commercial photographer in Chicago.

-- Marc Schwartzberg