Retread
Nate Harrison
Industrial and advertising
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Parts
About
Retread is a short format video inspired by Ron Fricke's 1992 film Baraka. Charting a similar course with its cinematographic journeys around the globe, Retread swaps out the 70mm panoramic shots of urban and remote landscapes found in the original for footage sampled from a variety of American SUV television commercials. In the case of each commercial, the automobile was digitally removed, with all of the advertisements subsequently pieced together to form one continuous whole. The edit was finished by inserting 'retreads' (industry jargon for TV jingles composed for a particular client that were never used, but instead recycled for other potential clients), sans product voice over, as the soundtrack.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Vintage commercials
- Licence or status
- CC BY-NC-ND 2.5, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Nate Harrison
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed