Frames of Reference
Volume 1 Program 1
Idle Worship

These works examine the media's power to fashion political and popular icons, at times offering a wry commentary on the cult of personality and its adherents.


No Sell Out
Tony Cokes with X-PREZ
05:37   1995
Using a pulsing rock soundtrack and music video-style editing, Tony Cokes combines archival footage of Malcolm X, advertisements, and corporate logos in No Sell Out to provide a scathing commentary on commodity culture.


Girl Power
Sadie Benning
15:00    1992
A  contemporary, diaristic look into the lives, imaginations, fears, fantasies and explorations of two lesbian teenage girls on the road.


Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena
Lourdes Portillo
49:00   1998
A documentary about the phenomenon of mass adulation and posthumous recognition following the murder of Selena Quintilla, a Tex-Mex rock singer.