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Appropriating several seconds off an unidentified film clip, this piece of scratch video, because of its style and source material, has an anachronistic feel, as though it could have been produced in the 1980s when homelessness reached record levels. A black man, down on his luck, delivers a piece of proverbial wisdom that is simultaneously reinforced and undermined through jarring repetition. Between the form of the piece and the content of his message, a circular logic emerges in which ideology is being absorbed and then immediately erased. Although broken at the end by a deadpan request for money, the circuit lasts long enough to leave an indelible impression.
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