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Les Leveque

Communists Like Us

Vidéo expérimentale | dv | noir et blanc | 3:28 | USA | 2010

Communists Like Us is an ambient music video made from a few seconds of archival footage of Mao Zedong applauding and members of the Red Guard chanting. The title Communists Like Us was taken from the 1985 text of the same name written by Felix Guattari and Toni Negri.

Les LeVeque received an MFA in Video Research from the Department of Art Media Studies at Syracuse University. He is a Visiting Associate Professor in Film and Electronic Media at Bard College and co-Chair of the Film/Video program in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. His work has been exhibited internationally including 2000 Whitney Biennial, Georges Pompidou Center, Museum fur Neue Kunst ZKM, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centre Culturel et de Cooperation Linguistique Bilbao, Pacific Film Archive, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Festival screenings of his work include Transmediale Berlin, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. The Video Data Bank distributes his single channel video work. He is represented by KS Art in New York City.