A civic transcript buried on the internet is regenerated as a feature film, word-for-word and entirely in close-up. Public Hearing is the verbatim re-performance of a rural American town meeting from a transcript downloaded as publicly available information. Shot entirely in cinematic close-up on black-and-white 16mm film, a cast of actors and non-actors read between the lines in an ironic debate over the replacement of an existing Wal-Mart with a super Wal-Mart.
The subtitles are created with Google Translate, which takes its intelligence from available texts on the internet, just like the transcript for Public Hearing which was downloaded as public information from the town website. Considered as a supplemental side project, the imperfect Google subtitles reflect what is lost in translation within an echo chamber of globalization. Subtitles are provided in languages representing the Doc Alliance.
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