surveillance 2

a video by William Noland

Outside the the very center of world financial power, the New York Stock Exchange, and behind the veil of abstraction provided by the flow of data and the systematic, insatiable greed for greater and greater profits, stand the floor traders. These are the men and women who actually execute the orders to buy and sell, closely examined on their cigarette breaks, bored, isolated and all-too-human.

Camera and sound: William Noland
Completion date: 2004
Running time: 8:15