Walid Raad's fictitious video showing sunsets supposedly recorded by a Lebanese surveillance-camera operator has an affecting, elegiac feeling, and Michael Brown's stainless-steel simulation of a cracked mirror freezes an act of anarchic rage into a lovely, spidery web.
The life and work of Taubes is documented amply, in faux articles from The New Yorker, the Times, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and other publications, as well as in Taubes's own (fictitious) video archives of his travels and his own books (their covers are parodies of other books, such as a well-known Martin Heidegger collection).
Participants read fictitious video game descriptions and rated how much or how little they wanted to play each game.
Although the talk show is fictitious, the video was made at a real television studio, which does broadcast actual public access interviews and community programming.
It, too, is a triumph of digital artistry and of the dramatic implications of actors' offstage lives, bringing together some of France's great performers, in their own name, who gather for the funeral of a (fictitious) playwright who, via video, addresses them seemingly from beyond and lures them into collaboration with other actors also via video.
It, too, is a triumph of digital artistry and of the dramatic implications of actors' offstage lives, bringing together some of France's great performers, in their own name, who gather for the funeral of a (fictitious) playwright who, via video, addresses them seemingly from beyond and lures them into collaboration with other actors — also via video.
"No… I mean, it's not… Well, I might be on a new New Order song," he says eventually. "So that's cool," he smiles, very pleased, not least because The Killers took their name from a fictitious band in the video for the Mancunian outfit's 2001 single "Crystal".
We operationalized invasiveness as the 'type of surveillance test', with three 'levels': endoscopy and two fictitious less invasive tests: video capsule endoscopy and a saliva-swab.
Set in the bitchy, backstabbing world of a fictitious beauty pageant, Matsoukas's video is gorgeously shot; each different setup looks like a magazine shoot slightly subverted by barely veiled sadness and tight rictus grins.
The experiment was identical to the diabetes study, except that the volunteers watched a video about a fictitious enzyme disorder called thioamine acetylase, or TAA, deficiency.
The company is promoting a series of Web videos featuring a fictitious girl named Shannon who appears with her family, the Powers, to dispense energy-saving advice.
