Business as Usual

Joe Hiscott
Canada, experimental, 2005
10 mins. (Beta)

If a corporation were to be embodied in a human being, how would it act? What would it do? What would it look like? Described as an art-film version of The Corporation, Business as Usual presents unusual representations through a more than usual character; the generic businessman. Gestures were filmed in front of the stock exchange buildings in Toronto, NY, London and Tokyo and edited as a collage-in-motion combining location, gesture and image manipulation. Business as Usual reveals the grotesquely human nature of the executive citizen and questions the threatening prevalence of global economic markets as the new world culture.