Lesson for Today (with Josh Neufeld)
1996

Movie-theater intermission slide projection
Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA

Projections: Intermission Images placed artworks in slide form in twenty movie theaters in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. For two months the images were projected during the pause between screenings of mainstream commercial films, along with the usual trivia contests and advertisements for popcorn. Originally ten works by ten artists were commissioned, but four were rejected at the last minute by the National Cinema Network, the corporation that approves filler material at movie theaters nationwide. Rosler's work, created in collaboration with her son, the graphic novelist and cartoonist Josh Neufeld, was among them—presumably, as Rosler remarked, because the company "thinks the public needs to be protected from indisputable fact.” Rosler later exhibited the image as a light box.