Where to Watch Suzon

Viral videos of drive-thru workers—recorded by surveillant, managerial consumers—are repurposed into a portrait of the worker as embodying the tension between the mundane and the theatrical. Named after the woman in Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, this found-footage montage references visual elements and ideas in the painting. Aureoles of light venerate workers, renouncing the distinction between high/low art in portraiture. Incongruous settings are interwoven to reflect on the shifting sensibilities from analogue film to digital media, and to frame questions about the roles of filmmaker and audience. Images reshot through water evoke the fluid ephemerality of representation.