CONTROLLING INTERESTS: FILM/VIDEO SERIES

CONTROLLING INTERESTS film and video series, is a pre-election day film and video series which explores the persuasive use of media as a way of maintaining power, encouraging or discouraging particular behaviours, eiminating cultural, sociological difference, stressing patriotism and nationalism, and in the U.S. in particular, selling products and encouraging consumption.film and video series, organized by film and video curators Matt Schwonke and Julia Dzwonkoski. —E.C.