Cross-Cultural Television

Muntadas in conjunction with Hank Bull 

1987, 35 min, color, sound

Muntadas writes: "Television reflects the global cultural, political and economic spectrum. This is a videotape about Television. It is a fragmented, personal view. It is only one of many ways to explore television. This is a videotape about the cosmetics and packaging of television. It is...

Media Ecology Ads

Muntadas

1982, 12:22 min, color, sound

Muntadas subverts the language of commercial advertisements in his witty visual critique of the production and consumption of television images. The three segments — Fuse,Time and Slow Down — are visual commentaries that challenge specific formal elements of TV advertising: edited time, visual...

Snowflake

Muntadas

1976, 24 min, b&w and color, sound

Snowflake is one of more than a dozen newly restored works by Muntadas, including early media interventions and works produced for television, which were recently made available.

Watching the Press/Reading Television

Muntadas

1981, 11:20 min, color, sound

Writes Muntadas of this work, "It's about fragmentation. How media — in this case, magazines (People, Money, U.S. News & World Report) and television — reduces information." Continuing his investigation into the process of reading/viewing information, he contrasts blurred television images with...