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Released
2003 · FILM

Market Update

Runtime
1 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Joshua Oppenheimer reimagines a sixty-second stock market update as a maniacal monologue delivered by a mumbling madman, providing a bizarre play-by-play of floor traders and urban pedestrians as the trading day ends. Created during the production of the feature-length *Globalization Tapes*, this brief film is Oppenheimer's most concentrated piece of socio-political commentary: a quick, colorful political cartoon of capitalism presented out of context and set to a soundtrack that is both comic and somewhat sinister. The upbeat musical accompaniment enhances the empty celebration of meaningless activity.

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