Involuntary Conversion

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language meaning and social decay and is scripted from doublespeak language found in a variety of media sources Drawing its title from the Pentagons term for crash Involuntary Conversion evokes the hollowness and freefloating anxiety that characterizes late 20th century culture In a voice that could belong to a hypnotist or a government spokesman a disembodied speaker recounts a string of events whose common thread is a sense of impending disaster The mood is suspended somewhere between nightmare and deadpan and is propelled by a narrative as enigmatic as the language it exposes The iconic shape of a fighter jet floating in a perfect sky has the creepy feel of a video game and the texture of television is used to make the images feel domestically ingrained