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Design Category
Motion graphics, 1999
Design firm
Imaginary Forces
Collection
(2000) AIGA 365: 21

Description

This main title sequence questions those things many American citizens put their faith in: America, family, material culture. Suburban nightmares are suggested by discolored picket fences and distorted middle-American weekend iconography. The intent is to have the audience disturbed and curious. The images were shot in a guerilla film making fashion on Velvia film, black-and-white high con, digital video, super 8, 16mm, 8mm and standard 35mm.

Credits
Directors: Mark Pellington, Kyle Cooper
Designers: Kyle Cooper, Michelle Dougherty
Executive producers: Peter Frankfurt, Kyle Cooper
Producers: Tom Gorai, Peter Samuelson, Marc Samuelson
Head of production: Saffron Kenny
Editors: Lauren Giordano, Conrad Buff
Inferno artist: Lori Freitag-Hild
2-D animator: Ben Lopez
Coordinator: Deidre Morrison
Distributor: Polygram Filmed Ent.