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Mark Bradford: Super 8 Movies | Art21 "Exclusive"

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    [Mark Bradford: Super 8 Movies]
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    As a kid, I would lay down on the…
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    [LAUGHS]
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    …this grass, and look up at the sky,
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    and I would see clouds.
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    And I remember one day, I said,
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    "Oh, you know what?"
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    I told my friends,
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    "Oh, we're going to…"
    "I'm going to make…"
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    "I'm going to have a movie."
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    "I'm going to make a movie."
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    "I'm going to…"
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    "We're all going to watch a movie
    and it's going to be free."
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    And I was going to project it on the cloud.
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    So…
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    [LAUGHS]
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    all my friends--
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    Tina, Terry, Tanya, Lauren, myself--
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    all the people.
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    We all…
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    They went...
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    Because they would believe me!
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    They just knew…
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    "That's right, Mark!"
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    Because I was the wizard.
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    And we waited for it to get dark,
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    but not too dark,
    because you could see the clouds.
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    And we got all the extension cords
    from all over the house.
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    And I turned it up.
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    And I projected it to the cloud.
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    And nothing happened!
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    And it's funny
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    because they said, "Oh..."
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    "Must have not worked."
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    But the way they said it was,
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    "You could've made it work."
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    And you know, they're still like that.
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    They're still like that.
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    "It wasn't your fault, Mark."
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    "Something was wrong up there,"
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    "because it should have worked!"
Title:
Mark Bradford: Super 8 Movies | Art21 "Exclusive"
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Video Language:
English
Team:
Art21
Project:
"Extended Play" series
Duration:
01:35

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