The Morning After
Chris Marker roves the international press after the victory of US President-elect Barack Obama and presents us with this celebratory Animoto video on YouTube. Here is evidence of the global import of this moment in history. This press coverage, tracked with the tenacity of a grandmaster archivist, represents, in a sense, the public face of a deep joy that erupted worldwide.
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America is reborn! We can only hope that this joy doesn’t shift back to apathy that allowed Bush to create worldwide turmoil.
Do we actually know this was by CM?
Clue 1: Kosinki the user is also named Guillaume in the details: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kosinki
Clue 2: Marker makes videos using divx codec. Kosinki’s most recent video is called Metropia.divx.
Clue 3: Marker is a long-time Obama fan: 72 Years
By the way, excellent ruminations in your blog on Marker | Tarkovsky and references within references, woven into your story of the St. Mark’s video shop! http://www.13journal.com/
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