Market Update (2003)

Joshua Oppenheimer reimagines a sixtysecond stock market update as maniacal monologue by a mumbling madman giving a bizarre playbyplay of floor traders and urban pedestrians as the trading day comes to an end Created while in the midst of production on the featurelength GLOBALIZATION TAPES this brief film is Oppenheimers most concentrated piece of sociopolitical commentary a quick colorful political cartoon of capitalism plucked outofcontext and set to a soundtrack that is both comic and somewhat sinister The upbeat musical accompaniment only enhances the empty celebration of meaningless activity