Dogs in Cars

2016 | IPHONE | 4 MIN

In Dogs in Cars, I became a chain e-mail. Chain email’s attempt to convince their readers to come away new sets of beliefs, or sometimes to take a bold action or stand, say, like becoming as a parking lot, dog saving, vigilante. By replacing the text in the chain mail with myself and my dog, I enter the typically anonymous chain-mail dialogue and become physical spam, who begs to infect others through emotional manipulation. By removing the anonymity of the author, does the spam have any power or is it just quackery? I tried to capture the urgency and immediacy of spam in direct comparison to the uncomfortable tension that arises when one has the ability to question the sanity of the directive and the safety of the dog. Would my mom share this video like she shared the email?