Some December
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7m 5s
Directed by Andrew Lampert | 7 mins | 2011
This short by artist, archivist, and curator Lampert captures vivid documentary snippets of Yuletide cheer: the office holiday party, the spirited efforts of amateur ice skaters, a soliloquizing subway Santa—but the underlying subject is performativity, and what sometimes makes it wither in the camera’s gaze.
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