Soft Targets & Keys to the Mission
Soft Targets
Shalom Gorewitz 
2004, 4:58 min, color, sound

Of Soft Targets, Gorewitz writes: "[I] realized that anything I was recording was potentially a soft target for violent extremists. At the same time, as a visual artist I'm also looking for 'soft' targets as images."

Keys to the Mission
Shalom Gorewitz 
2004, 7 min, color, sound

A cinematic collage, Keys to the Mission juxtaposes protest scenes from San Francisco and New York.

Description

Here Gorewitz brings together two new works, thematically related in their exploration of the climate of fear that has developed in the United States since 9/11. Of Soft Targets, Gorewitz writes: "[I] realized that anything I was recording was potentially a soft target for violent extremists. At the same time, as a visual artist I'm also looking for 'soft' targets as images." A cinematic collage, Keys to the Mission juxtaposes protest scenes from San Francisco and New York.