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2021.9
How To Be Popular, 2021
2021
Moving image
Re-edited found video
Black & white sound
From the Prelinger Archive
01:22
11 May 2021
UK
A 1947 public information film advises young people how to be popular, largely by conforming to societal expectations of gender roles and parental authority.

The artist reorganises the material to subvert the heteronormative assumptions promoted by the film's narrator.

The artist's version of
How To Be Popular
queers the protagonists so that the 'boy meets girl' story takes a freer, distinctly different turn.