Film screening and conversation with artists

Cinema Ideal, Lisbon

04.11.2024 at 9h15 pm

Artists Muntadas and Reese will premiere the 11th edition of their four-decade collaboration, Political Advertisement 1952-2024, followed by a conversation with a political and media commentator to be announced.

For 40 years, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have been compiling a video history of presidential campaign spots that follows the evolution of broadcast political advertising from its beginnings in 1952 to the present. When the artists started this project in 1984, finding broadcast political ads required exhaustive research in archives and often involved personal contact with the candidate’s campaigns, a bit more complicated than today’s internet click and download.

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Photo: “Peace Little Girl (Daisy)”, Democratic National Committee (1964)