Desire Inc. (1990)
June 20, 1990Release Date
Desire Inc. (1990)
June 20, 1990Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Mauricio Figuls
Responder
Marion Grabinsky
Model
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Director / Editor
Mark Mendelson
Responder
Toyoji Tomita
Responder
Skip Sweeney
Editor
Merle Mason
Editor
Stephen Buckingham
Director of Photography
Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Desire Inc. (1990) is a video documentary piece created by the artist Lynn Hershman (now known as Lynn Hershman Leeson). Hershman created a series of seductive television ads in which a sexy woman asked for viewers to call her. The ads, interviews with the respondents to the ad, and commentary from Hershman are woven together to create the 26-minute video. This is one of Hershman's significant works, and it demonstrates the viewers' intense personal relationship to the public space. It is a rare piece of video art that makes television interactive, where the response from a viewer is as much the art as the ad itself.
Hershman uses the form of the TV commercial, which usually just directs desire toward consumer objects, to direct viewers toward actual interpersonal connection instead.