Double Standard

Double Standard, 30 mins HD video, 2008.

Deploying documentary footage of a guided Neighborhood Fruit Forage, this video takes the viewer in real time through a tour of Fallen Fruit’s home neighborhood in Los Angeles.  The two channels (from the perspective of the two cameras) are overlaid with a text block of comments from a public television video of the same event  which had been posted on YouTube. The comments create an alternative, cruelly critical narrative to the events documented in the raw footage, with crude, homophobic and racist comments mixed in with a few acute observations. In the play between action and commentary, Double Standard challenges the simultaneity of the viewer’s experience, creating a displacement between the “real” and the “realtime.”  The awkward and slippery space between these two narratives begins to probe at the question of authenticity as well as casting a new look at the issues of public and private space.