To Die For: Images of Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps  (2008)

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To Die For: Images of Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps

As one of a series of releases from Microcinema devoted to the work of various visual artists, To Die For: Images of Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps showcases the work of Kennard and Phillipps. Kennard initially gained recognition for his gutsy, occasionally assaultive work with the art of photo-montage, in which he would take seemingly unrelated photographic images and superimpose one or more atop another with great fluidity - typically making hyper-satirical sociocultural or political statements in the process. Kennard then teamed up with Phillipps, which raised the whole method to a new plane; their most famous collaboration is arguably 'Photo-op,' in which some clever montage-fueled trickery leads the audience to believe that a grinning Tony Blair is standing before an explosive Middle Eastern landscape and snapping a photo of himself with his cell phone. To Die For suspends narrative and presents a series of still photographs by Kennard and Phillipps, sequentially, on the viewer's screen. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide