We live in times that confuse reality and fiction: even the “veracity” of historic events becomes doubtful when our media-saturated perception renders them indistinguishable from movies or television. We can no longer tell if we are characters in some huge movie, or whether the food we eat is only props. This program is about that transformation from reality to representation: the mental representations we may have of our world; the lies in our world which may be transformed into truths, or vice versa; the very illusion of daily existence, in which simple things alter a truth, shake it to its foundations until it is transformed. The videos included here take recognizable media out of context, giving them alternative meanings, throwing into question our natural means of perception. These videos take the languages of film and television and use them to suggest other possibilities.

Works by Artemio, Lorenza Manriquez, Miguel Calderon, Carolina Esparragoza, F/X, Héctor Pacheco, Teresa Serrano, Grace Quintanilla, Ricardo Nicolayevsky, and Anonymous.