Found Footage/Original Audio
Control is an exploration into government manipulation of the masses through propaganda and rhetoric.
This political series focuses on the early use of televised propaganda used in WWII, the Cold War and
Vietnam eras. As the broadcast medium began to reach millions, people were entranced and terrified by
the events propagated by their leaders. The majority of these well known historical images preach fear
and nationalism.
Included Quotes:
Castro
What I have said is that I have no ambition at all. I feel myself sincerely, I don't have ambition for power, money,
nothing, only to serve my country...
Eisenhower
Two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world. To stop there
would be to accept helplessly the probability of civilization destroyed, the annihilation of the irreplaceable heritage
of mankind handed down to us from generation to generation, and the condemnation of mankind to begin all over
again the age-old struggle upward from savagery towards decency, and right, and justice. Surely no sane member
of the human race could discover victory in such desolation. Could anyone wish his name to be coupled by history with
such human degradation and destruction?
Truman
The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. We won the race of discovery
against the Germans. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands
and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy....
McCarthy
And when they say we don’t treat them like gentlemen, while we do I might say that if we did not, I would not cry for them.
Traitors are not gentlemen, my good friends. They don’t understand being treated like gentlemen!
George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of blind idolatry.
Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Control was featured in the Catalyst Group Show at Gallery Fifty 24 in San Francisco, September/October 2008.
The photo below is the installation at the show, taken by Daniel Locascio.
