AK-47 vs. M16, The Film

'AK-47 vs. M16, The Film' features the Soviet-made AK-47 and the American M16 as the
protagonists in a feature-length film that explores the influence these ubiquitous instruments of warfare have had on popular culture, and indeed the imaging of conflicting ideologies during the Cold War.

Slicing and splicing together scenes from Hollywood films, documentaries, news reports, and found footage from the Internet, the film is edited to intensify the ‘movie star status’ of these two weapons used to kill and maim, whilst simultaneously relegating the human thespian to the position of a prop. Composed this way, 'AK-47 vs. M16, The Film' raises questions about the aesthetics of violence and the violence of aesthetics.