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The Horizontal Man

 

Video Found Footage

3 min

B/W

2016

Tijuana México

 

 

This found footage video juxtaposes material from Hugh Hefner's adolescence, when he made a short film about science fiction, in which he is the protagonist, and, in an ocular counter shot, where an interview is shown from his famous revolving bed, This at the same time consecrates him as the horizontal man who works in his pyjamas from his bed, an icon of his way of elaborating his empire, in other words, playboy magazine captures the new subjectivity of the modern post-war white man, who in his neo-liberal becoming will be the head of the global project of what we now call the Anthropocene.

 

 

 

 

El hombre horizontal

 

Video Found Footage

3 min

B/N

2016

Tijuana México

 

 

Este video Found footage, yuxtapone material de la adolescencia de Hugh Hefner, cuando realiza un cortometraje sobre ciencia ficción, en la que el mismo es protagonista y, en un contra plano ocular, donde se muestra una entrevista efectuada desde su famosa cama giratoria, esta al mismo tiempo lo consagra como el hombre horizontal que trabaja en pijama desde su cama, icono de su forma de elaborar su imperio, es decir la revista playboy captura la nueva subjetividad del hombre blanco moderno de la post guerra, que en su devenir neoliberal será la cabeza del proyecto global de lo hoy denominamos Antropoceno.