I make site-specific video and installations, often using found media or objects as a source. Current artworks explore ideas of memorial, fiction, and the way in which politically driven events are edified.

World Trade Center 2006 is an adaptation of dialogue taken directly from a bootleg screenplay for Oliver Stone’s up-coming film World Trade Center.  The video was made entirely in my studio using student actors and then released on the Internet, intentionally pre-empting Stone’s film release in August 2006. The artwork is a commentary on Hollywood’s authority to write history. Through their depiction of an historic event, they are ultimately in the position to influence ideas and effect policy.

I'm not a commercial filmmaker. ‘World Trade Center 2006’ constituted a portion of my recent graduate school thesis. Offering Paramount’s story for free online was a statement on their 60 million dollar effort

Though I can't speak to 'Fair use for the purpose of political commentary’ in copyright law, I can say that I wasn't trying to address this law with regard to appropriated works. I was using appropriation as a strategy to make a statement about power.

            - Chris Moukarbel