Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contempt for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly-spun fabric of television—a system that silences public debate and enforces the exclusion of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. riots and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
Editing
Pirated satellite footage stitched into damning narrative—no talking heads needed.
Direction
Springer's invisible hand lets the raw feed indict itself.
Director
Brian Springer
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Al Gore
Self (archive footage)
Larry King
Self (archive footage)
Jim Bakker
Self (archive footage)
Bill Beutel
Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Bush
Self (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
Self (archive footage)
Jerry Brown
Self (archive footage)
Tom Harkin
Self (archive footage)
Paul Tsongas
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Springer built illegal satellite rigs to intercept unencrypted C-band feeds—this is literally stolen footage of stolen elections.
Released pre-internet, Spin predicted our entire present: hot-mic moments, manufactured outrage, candidates as content. The 1992 'invisible primary' never ended—it metastasized.
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