Produced by Graham at the Banff Centre in Canada, Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Mall draws on nearly twenty years' worth of footage shot in the bizarre yet familiar arena of the shopping mall. The resulting work provides a coldly beautiful view of mall culture: its architecture, its consumer public and its unique aesthetic world. This work also provides a corollary to Graham's own prodigious writings and projects on the public spaces of corporate capitalism.
A video by Dan Graham. Produced at the Banff Centre. Camera, Co-editor: Layda Gongora. Second Camera: Jen Hutton. Dedicated to robin the cat circa 2004.