The Hollow Coin

Frank Heath's "The Hollow Coin" explores roles of authority in public space and the intersection of personal and historical narratives. The video combines documentary footage of New York City's rapidly disappearing network of payphones with audio of a covertly recorded telephone exchange between an actor and an unknowing bystander . In the surreptitiously captured conversation an attempted "information leak" is infused with an absurd story and a historical anecdote. The work's title refers to a Soviet spy who was apprehended in 1953 after mistakenly paying his newspaper delivery boy with a hollow coin that contained a microfilm of an encrypted message . Throughout the video a parallel sequence of events reveals that images from the video itself have been stored on an SD card concealed within a hollow coin and inserted into the payphone from which the call was made.

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The Hollow Coin är en dokumentär, komedi och thrillerfilm från 2016, regisserad av Frank Heath. I en av huvudrollerna ses Jesse Wakeman.

Med en speltid på 0 timmar och 13 minuter är The Hollow Coin en produktion från United States of America. Originalspråket är engelska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa The Hollow Coin i Sverige.