Titles by Ken Feingold

5 dim/MIND
Allegory of Oblivion
In Shadow City
India Time
Irony (The Abyss of Speech)
La Vida es Una Herida Absurda
Life in Exile, Part One: Body, Speech and Mind: Conversations with Tibetan Philosophers
Life in Exile, Part Two: Resisting the Chinese Occupation: Personal Accounts of Tibetans
Purely Human Sleep
Relays That Destroy Instants
The Double
The Smallest Particle
Un Chien Délicieux
Water Falling From One World to Another

Allegory of Oblivion

1981, 168:30 min, color, silent

Uncovering the "hidden text" of network news footage, Allegory of Oblivion is a dark deconstruction of television's subliminal power. Feingold recorded the news on a nightly basis from November 1980 to May 1981. The resulting visual sequences, arranged chronologically and separated by a solid red video field, form a litany of sensationalist, often lurid media images. Silent, seen without the contextualizing or "filtering" process of a news presentation, this flow of images reveals the unconscious reading of the spectacle of media information.