Benetton (2004)

Lampert writes Chelsea thieves market Sunday morning Overloaded front table sunglasses cell phones Viagra sold by the pill 10 assorted hot goods Inaccessible back table more of same two 35mm film cans marked BENETTON Excuse me whats in those cans Twenty dollars Is there film in the cans Twenty dollars No I want to know what is in the cans Twenty dollars Twenty dollars later four giant 16mm reels 2 hours of color doubleperforated reversal footage three female models An entire mid90s ad campaign shoot obviously orphaned or cast away footage now curiously in my hands BENETTON is the first installment in the ongoing imperfect series produced from an all too perfect source