Suicide Box
NR, 60 min.
Directed by @tmark, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Bringing IT to YOU (NR, 60 min.) and Suicide Box (NR, 13 min.) are two videos that investigate corporate sabotage and the confused role of technology in contemporary culture. The ®TMark documentary reveals the philosphophy and tactics of this underground group, which is responsible for such actions as the Barbie Liberation Organization (which switched talking Barbies with G.I. Joe voiceboxes) and the notorious GWbush.com. “Suicide Box” is about the Bureau of Inverse Technology’s vertical-trigger photographic device that captures a video record of anything that falls off the Golden Gate Bridge, thereby providing an accurate measure of the suicide rate.

This article appears in October 20 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.