At Face Value

At Face Value

Production country: 
nl
Year: 
2008
Duration: 
22'
Edition: 
2018
At Face Value by Zachary Formwalt, part of the film & videoprogram of transmediale 2018

The practice of overprinting postage stamps as a way to cope with early 20th-century periods of hyperinflation raises questions about the symbolic potential of the defaced imagery in these overprints. In At Face Value—an early film by Amsterdam-based American artist Zachary Formwalt, who is concerned with the implications of finance and the invisible flow of capital—overprinted stamps appear as interfaces between economic and historical representation.

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