A series of 19 short parables concerning modes of representation, language and cognition. Often conveyed through conscious misinformation, Baldessari's witty puns and jokes play off the relation of word, image and meaning; the intersection of what is heard or written, what is seen, and what is understood. For example, he shows us an image of a duffel bag and proceeds to describe, in detail, an object bearing no resemblance to a duffel bag, which is eventually revealed to be a stool. In A Sentence with Hidden Meaning, he writes the phrase, "A sentence with hidden meaning" on a legal pad, hiding the word "hidden" so that it reads, "A sentence with meaning."
John Baldessari
Director
Isn't It Romantic61%
The Tramp65%
Life of Brian77%
Dracula: Dead and Loving It60%
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day62%
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life73%
The Onion Movie61%
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story69%
Vicious59%
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear68%
Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest75%
Slingshot60%
The DUFF67%
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood69%
Truth or Dare59%
The Marsh King's Daughter63%
The Roast of Tom Brady67%
Kissing Is the Easy Part74%
Me Time58%
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb81%
