Public Lighting
2004, English. Directed by Mike Hoolboom.
How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for the years between a grave and a difficult birth? Public Lighting examines the current media obsession with biography, offering up “the six different kinds of personality” (the obsessive, the narcissist) as case studies and miniatures, possible examples.
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- 1h 16m
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- English
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- 1 January 2004
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Public Lighting isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2004. (Checked 4 November 2026.)
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Who directed Public Lighting?
Public Lighting (2004) was directed by Mike Hoolboom.