This Is a Recorded Message

Directed by Jean-Thomas Bédard · 1973

Hundreds of cut-out magazine ads collide in rapid, fragmented succession to show how advertising shapes our desires and our lives.

A dizzying 1970s collage that still feels razor-sharp about our ad-saturated world.

Made up of hundreds of cut-out colour ads presented in fragmented, rapid succession, this animated short takes a critical look at consumerism in a material world. Seductive advertising is seen as the main motivating forc

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