VIEW STREAMING QUICKTIME

The ways in which our news media narrativise current events have become glaringly evident since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In Coming Soon Ago samples and re-mixes 35mm film footage from commercial movie trailers to recreate the mini-narratives of the news media. He highlights the increasing appropriation of commercial entertainmentπs dramatic strategies to åsellπ news programs while propagandizing ideas and interpretations to a national and international audience.

Ago is currently pursuing his MFA at the USC School of Cinema-Television. His position as film projectionist for a cinema in Culver City, LA is chiefly responsible for affording him the opportunity to produce this work