This Is a Recorded Message

This Is a Recorded Message

10 mins | Animation | Jan. 1, 1973

This experimental animated short takes a critical look at consumerism in a material world. Thousands of cut-out ads are presented in increasingly fragmented, rapid succession. The film's disorienting and hectic pace seeks to interrogate the extent to which seductive advertising is a shockingly strong force in shaping our desires, needs, and lives in contemporary capitalism.

This Is a Recorded Message

10 mins | Animation | Jan. 1, 1973

This Is a Recorded Message
This experimental animated short takes a critical look at consumerism in a material world. Thousands of cut-out ads are presented in increasingly fragmented, rapid succession. The film's disorienting and hectic pace seeks to interrogate the extent to which seductive advertising is a shockingly strong force in shaping our desires, needs, and lives in contemporary capitalism.
Producers National Film Board of Canada
Original title This Is a Recorded Message
Directors Jean-Thomas Bédard
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