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    • THE OLD VIEW FROM NOWHERE (ongoing)
    • 36 DORITOS
    • SEVERAL LEDGERS
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    • SOUTH OF HEAVEN
    • FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB
    • START AS YOU WILL GO ON
    • DECOY
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    • MOUSEBALL
    • ARMOUR . CONQUER . BOUNTY
    • SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD
    • RETREAT
    • PROTEST CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN
    • THERE WAS A TIME WHEN FIRE WAS THE END OF ALL THINGS
    • MINIATURES AND MULTIPLES
    • SHOUT OUTS!
    • APPARENTLY/APPARENTLY NOT
  • VIDEO
    • LAST WORD IN LONESOME IS ME
    • 13 INSTANCES
    • BURNING OF THE NAUVOO TEMPLE
    • 52 USED SHIRTS
    • DEMOS, COVERS, UNRELEASED
    • STAKEOUT!
    • A LITTLE BIT OF NOTHING
  • PRINT
    • EPIGRAPHS/EPIGRAMS
    • PURE BOOTY
    • MOUSEBALL
    • ALL WORDS ARE EMPTY
    • NAUVOO SUITE
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    Preface

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Preface. Colour Video for Projection/Exhibition. DV. 2004-05. 7 minutes

Credits
Director: David Poolman
Sound: Gord Glendon

Synopsis
Preface is rewriting of a popular text on Dutch immigration to Canada over the last century. I have changed each noun in the text to a pronoun. This work deals with moving from the particular to the general and the blurring of both "truth" and identity in the constructions and overlapping genres of fiction and history.

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