The Fire As "Video Art"
In 2002, the Brazilian video art collective "The Revolution Will Not Be Broadcast" used TV footage of the Xuxa Park fire in a work titled "Xuxa em Chamas" ("Xuxa on Fire"). They varied the speed and frame rate of the footage, and distorted the audio. The result was described by one critic as "a powerful and cynical criticism of media news coverage."
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