Movie · 1972 · 24 min

Inventory (1972)

Inventory is a 1972 movie (—). Inventory was directed by John Baldessari. Inventory runs 24 minutes. There is currently no known legal streaming option for Inventory in United States. Check back later or switch your region.

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Plot

In a sly twist on the methodology of the 18th-century "philosophes" who classified the laws and history of the world in massive encyclopedias, Baldessari devises and then subverts his own system for cataloguing the world. In a matter-of-fact tone, he states that he is going to present a precise, methodical inventory of objects, progressing from small to large in size. Drawing on his own collection of found objects, he exhibits and describes a seemingly arbitrary series of over thirty disparate items. By undermining the viewer's empirical perception, video ultimately is proven to be a flawed medium for the indexing and classification of the world.