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Trooper is a short video work designed for display in a
gallery, where a news report taken from a CNN webcast is
both repeated and sped up systematically. In doing so, the
authority of the seemingly factual and neutral newscast
is eroded, de-constructed and ultimately exposed as a fictive
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In March 2004, Sarah Kent
said, "Most compelling is Thomson & Craighead's Trooper. A snatch of American television news shows a
traffic cop drag a woman from a car at gunpoint, shove
her to the ground and handcuff her. 'The woman sustained
bruises and scratches and pleaded guilty to speeding',
says the commentator. With each repeat, the clip is speeded
up until the voices squeak like Donald Duck; reality strays
into the territory of cartoons and cowboy films"
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