Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes (1980)
5m
Running Time
May 5, 1980Release Date
Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes (1980)
5m
Running Time
May 5, 1980Release Date
Plot.
Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a deconstructive twist. In a syncopated collage of appropriated footage (including a TV commercial for Sergio Valente jeans) and a young woman drinking Remy on a commuter train platform, Birnbaum calls attention to how mass media advertising uses a woman's body as a vehicle for selling products. In a stylized pastiche that she terms "a snack-en-route with a pretty girl, animated trains, updated Bacharach muzak (Brazilian style), and pouring Remy," Birnbaum turns the tables on the media's use of woman as commodity.
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Release DateMay 5, 1980
StatusReleased
Running Time5m
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