Involuntary Conversion (1991)
This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak" language found in a variety of media sources. Drawing its title from the Pentagon's term for crash, Involuntary Conversion evokes the hollowness and free-floating anxiety that characterizes late 20th century culture. In a voice that could belong to a hypnotist or a government spokesman, a disembodied speaker recounts a string of events whose common thread is a sense of impending disaster. The mood is suspended somewhere between nightmare and deadpan and is propelled by a narrative as enigmatic as the language it exposes. The iconic shape of a fighter jet floating in a perfect sky has the creepy feel of a video game and the texture of television is used to make the images feel domestically ingrained.
Director: Jeanne C. Finley
| Directing | Jeanne C. Finley | Director |
| Sound | Kevin Deal | Music |
| Editing | Jeanne C. Finley | Editor |
| Camera | Starr Sutherland | Additional Camera |
| Camera | Chip Lord | Additional Camera |
| Directing | John Muse | Assistant Director |
