Movie: What's Ours and What We Are

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    What's Ours and What We Are

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    In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to distort and re-contextualize their original status, satirically articulating the purpose of propaganda which is to ‘speak to’ and ultimately to persuade a spectator.

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    2016-05-09

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