Gun Talk is a diary-like approach to the topic of Gun-control. Saks uses interviews, computer-animation (‘the ‘bells and whistles’ special effects of an average video recorder’), vocal distortion and cut-out dolls to analyse the use and role of guns in the United States. He shows several recent incidents to illustrate the use of guns, for instance students at an art academy who take revolvers to school with them, two friends boasting about possessing guns and a landlord who caught burglars with a gun in his hand and then asked his tenants to say he was unarmed.Saks: ‘This was the American Century – the car and motion-picture film era, both of which are mechanically obsolete and being replaced by micro-technology. The same is true for the gun as a tool – it’s obsolete. Electronic devices will replace it. Perhaps they won’t be lethal. I doubt it though.’Saks will continue his experimental film-essay with Gun Talk – Part II.
