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202611 minPGdocumentary

Pinktoned

202611 minPGdocumentary

Footage of passersby filmed in East Hollywood is interspersed with archival images of Los Angeles streets plastered with posters for the 1976 documentary Underground.

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Footage of passersby filmed in East Hollywood is interspersed with archival images of Los Angeles streets plastered with posters for the 1976 documentary Underground.

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Mike Stoltzdirector

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Stoltz constructed Pinktoned and Pinktoned (Exploded View) using footage of passersby he filmed from his art studio in East Hollywood interspersed with still images from an archive of photographic slides he found at a rummage sale at the Echo Park Film Center. These images picture the streets of Los Angeles covered with wheat-pasted movie posters for Underground, a 1976 documentary about the Weather Underground.

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