The Hollow Coin
Frank Heath's "The Hollow Coin" explores roles of authority in public space and the intersection of personal and historical narratives. The video combines documentary footage of New York City's rapidly disappearing network of payphones with audio of a covertly recorded telephone exchange between an actor and an unknowing bystander. In the surreptitiously captured conversation an attempted "information leak" is infused with an absurd story and a historical anecdote. The work's title refers to a Soviet spy who was apprehended in 1953 after mistakenly paying his newspaper delivery boy with a hollow coin that contained a microfilm of an encrypted message. Throughout the video a parallel sequence of events reveals that images from the video itself have been stored on an SD card concealed within a hollow coin and inserted into the payphone from which the call was made.
- Director
- Frank Heath
Questions
- Is The Hollow Coin free to watch?
- Not on Filmghar: we only play films and episodes that are in the public domain or that the owner has made free. We'll show it here as soon as it is free.
- Where can I watch The Hollow Coin in Pakistan?
- We couldn't find a streaming service carrying The Hollow Coin in Pakistan right now.
- Who is in the cast of The Hollow Coin?
- The Hollow Coin stars Jesse Wakeman.
- What kind of film is The Hollow Coin?
- The Hollow Coin (2016) is a documentary, comedy, thriller film.
