Filmworks: Throw Away Culture / Touch

by Ben Zucker

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1.	Touch: Intro 02:08	buy track
2.	Touch: Selfie Melancholy 01:35	buy track
3.	Touch: GIF! 01:55	buy track
4.	Touch: Outro 02:52	buy track
5.	Throw Away Culture: Oceans I 01:17	buy track
6.	Throw Away Culture: There Is A Problem 01:44	buy track
7.	Throw Away Culture: Translucent Wonder 01:05	buy track
8.	Throw Away Culture: There Is Hope 00:40	buy track
9.	Throw Away Culture: Oceans II 01:42	buy track

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A collection of music for two short films!

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Touch: vimeo.com/298442950 (2018)

Why is it so hard to put our phones down? Something keeps us attached. Something both pleasurable and anxiety-inducing. This video essay, authored by James J. Hodge in collaboration with The Media and Design Studio at Northwestern University, explores the experience of always-on computing through four new networked genres that have risen to prominence with smartphone culture: selfies, animated GIFs, supercuts, and ASMR videos. Seeking a way past technophobic and technophilic approaches to new technologies, this project seeks to describe why we're always on.

Featured in Sight and Sound’s Best Video Essays of 2018 (medieninitiative.wordpress.com/2019/01/20/sight-sound-best-video-essays-of-2018/), TriQuarterly Magazine (www.triquarterly.org/node/303191), and Filmscalpel (www.filmscalpel.com/touch/).

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Throw Away Culture: theaudienceawards.com/films/throw-away-culture-118873 (2018)

Plastic is all around us. From packaging for our food to synthetic fabric for our clothes, plastic has become an inescapable reality. A significant portion of this plastic winds up in the ocean, where it not only threatens marine life, but human health too. When did we become so addicted to plastic? And what can we do to break our addiction?

Directed by Nikki Dodd & Rory Moon. Grand Jury Prize Winner of the Audience Audience Ocean Film Challenge. Shown at the Environmental Film Festival (Washington DC), International Wildlife Film Festival (Missoula, MT), and AudFest (Los Angeles, CA).

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released March 7, 2020

All music by Ben Zucker, with many thanks for the crews of both films--Special thanks to Amy Zhang and Miriam Piilonen who were key to my involvement in these excellent projects.

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music from "Dogs Or Cats; Augmented Body"

Feb 2023
Vitamalisms/Revitalism

Oct 2022
Semiterritory

Sep 2022
Uncommonplacing

Mar 2021
A War Of The Worlds

Nov 2020
Breath Must Be Had By All

Jun 2020
Filmworks: Throw Away Culture / Touch

Mar 2020
AEOOGA

Jul 2019
worksworn

Dec 2017
Ongoing Collected Works

Aug 2017
Music from EURYDICE

Apr 2013

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