PSYCHO-GEO : US
OTHER CINEMA
October 5, 2024
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
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showing HOLLYWOOD, an episode from a longer work in progress based in the Oceano Dunes. I will also be discussing my new book Oceano (for seven generations) and signing copies!
In 1923, twenty-one enormous plaster sphinxes lining a path to a 30-foot-high façade of the Pharaoh’s temple were built in the Oceano Dunes for the filming of Cecil B. DeMille’s Ten Commandments, a seminal early Hollywood blockbuster. After filming, DeMille dug a trench and buried the whole set in the sand dunes, where it remained for almost 100 years until recent excavations. Hollywood uses found footage from the media and YouTube to tell this remarkable media story.
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