This Is a Recorded Message

This Is a Recorded Message — Plot

This experimental animated short takes a critical look at consumerism in a material world. Thousands of cut-out ads are presented in increasingly fragmented, rapid succession. The film's disorienting and hectic pace seeks to interrogate the extent to which seductive advertising is a shockingly strong force in shaping our desires, needs, and lives in contemporary capitalism.

• Release date
• January 1, 1973
• Runtime
• 10 min
• Genres
• Animation
• Director
• Jean-Thomas Bédard