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Treat (or trick)
7min film on the tricks of the financial trade
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| Produced | 2008/11/18 |
| Duration | 6 minutes 57 seconds |
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Created as some of the biggest banks in the USA collapsed Treat (or trick) is a video installation in three parts exploring the tricks of the financial trade - Part one: The Magician, stars the notorious magician of the free market Mr Invisible Hands; Part 2: The Rabbit exlores the secret life of rabbits (and other small commodities); and; Part 3: The Hat looks at the bottomless pit of our desires. Canned laughter, boos, gasps and cheers evoke an absent audience which jolly along the solitary viewer in accepting some of the oldest myths of the free market. But as the film points out Mr Invisible Hands bext trick is not pulling a rabbit from a hat, or acts of escapology and transposition, but in changing the relationship between audience and performer - no one really belives in the magic but we still come along to the show to see the "allure of the trick". Using traditional side show music, including the danger riff played when an animal escapes from the circus, the video encourages an absurdist re-engagement with familar arguments about the logic of money.
