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  • Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Made in Hollywood, 1990, 35 mm, 16 mm, and video transferred to digital video, color, sound, 56 minutes 12 seconds.

    Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Made in Hollywood, 1990, 35 mm, 16 mm, and video transferred to digital video, color, sound, 56 minutes 12 seconds.

    Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

    Kunstverein in Hamburg

    At the end of Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s film Made in Hollywood, 1990, Patricia Arquette, who plays a Dorothy-like aspiring actress looking for Oz in Los Angeles, earnestly addresses the camera: “We’ve been lost, Matt, we’ve been trying to find our way home down the wrong path. I don’t want to be in movies. There’s only one place where I can find the world I’m looking for. . . . It’s the commercials!” This concluding punch line—suggesting that TV advertising is the place of “real families and real love”—is emblematic of the Yonemoto brothers’ campy and deadpan subversion of narrative structures,

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