Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman

Dara Birnbaum

1978 | 00:05:45 | United States | English | Color | 4:3 | Video

Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles

Tags: Feminism, Media Analysis, Television, Video History

A stutter-step progression of "extended moments" unmasks the technological "miracle" of Wonder Woman's transformation, playing psychological transformation off of television product. Birnbaum considers this tape an "altered state [that] renders the viewer capable of re-examining those looks which, on the surface, seem so banal that even the supernatural transformation of a secretary into a 'Wonder Woman' is reduced to a burst of blinding light and a turn of the body — a child's play of rhythmical devices inserted within the morose belligerence of the fodder that is our average television diet."

This title is also available on Surveying the First Decade: Volume 2.

Pricing Information

Additional Formats/Uses
Request an Exhibition Quote Request an Archival Quote

Please contact info@vdb.org or visit http://www.vdb.org/content/prices-formats with any questions about the license types listed here.




Exhibitions + Festivals

 

Transmediale Festival (Germany), 2005

 

MIX New York Lesbian and Gay Experiemental Film Festival, 2011