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Sat 03 Mar 2003Sex, lies and video verite
Phil Collins looks at the world through a starkly candid lens. His latest work is the topical 'Baghdad Screentests', writes Aidan Dunne.
Phil Collins' video, Baghdad Screentests, showing nightly in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar, consists of footage of 35 or so Iraqi students. The camera focuses intently on each of them individually. They look like ordinary people. They don't do much. Some look a bit bored, some slightly uncomfortable. Occasionally they ask or say something but we cannot hear their words because they are drowned out by a loud soundtrack of pop songs by Donna Summer, The Beatles, Elvis and others. We simply look at people being looked at.
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