Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Shopping Mall (1986-05)

Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Shopping Mall (1986-05)

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2005

Runtime

0h 8m

Original Title

Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Shopping Mall (1986-05)

Director

Dan Graham

Description

Produced by Graham at the Banff Centre in Canada, DEATH BY CHOCOLATE 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.