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Closer:
The Fall of Baghdad
Courtesy GNN (Let the Quicktime video load then press
play)
The news coverage of America's 'shock and awe' campaign during Operation Iraqi Freedom brought television audiences closer to the spectre of war than ever before. It was an unparalled orgy of military fetishism that featured, as its primary spectacle, the wholesale demolition of a major cultural capital, one of the oldest in the history of human civilization.
In this video, created for the new single, Closer by The Soulsavers, GNN brings its own aesthetic treatment of the invasion of Iraq, mimicking the news ticker usually seen on the cable news channels. But with a very different information flow...
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