The year is 2018, and corporate conglomerates are the new superpowers. Crime and poverty have been eliminated, and the violent, sometimes deadly sport of rollerball has become a worldwide obsession. James Caan stars as Jonathan E., veteran champion of the game, whose maverick ways shake up the corporation’s control. As the tagline says: “The next war will not be fought—it will be played!”
Through the selection, manipulation, and reproduction of existing printed materials, Erica Baum creates a poetry of word and image that inspires close looking and close reading.