[00:00 - 00:08]
[♪ experimental jazz ♪]
The title page of the artwork appears. It is a Telidon image that consists of a fuschia background and blue text that reads: NADIA’S CRIME. A STORY OF TEMPTATION AND INFLUENCE. The images that follow are made using Telidon unless otherwise specified.
[00:09 - 00:26]
A dark grey background appears. A lighter grey rectangle comes into view in the centre of the image portraying a map with dark grey lines and rectangles that represent buildings. A blue arrow points to one of the lines that represents a street. Blue text reads: FIFTH AVENUE.
[00:27 - 00:32]
A light grey rectangle populates the background. A dark grey rectangle is layered overtop representing a building, A red arrow points towards the building. Red text reads: SAKS.
[00:33 - 00:45]
[♪ You should be in jail, jail jail. You should be in jail ♪]
A light grey background appears with two grey lines streaking across it. The outline of a blue female figure appears at the right of the image with her hand on her waist. A fuschia figure appears on the left of the image with a hand on her waist.
[00:46 - 01:05]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
The portrait of a woman appears. She is looking towards the right of the image, in profile. She has blue hair and red lips on a fuschia background. Black text appears: NADIA.
[01:06 - 0:1:24]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
[♪ You should be in jail, jail jail. You should be in jail ♪]
A hatched background appears in neon colours of blue, green, purple, and red. The silhouette of a woman takes shape, wearing a top hat, with pink hands, holding a baton. Black text highlighted in white appears: NADIA STEALING.
[01:25 - 01:30]
The baton that the figure holds flashes from black to white. The black text: NADIA STEALING flashes on and off.
[01:31 - 02:02]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhh ♪]
[♪ You should be in jail, jail jail. You should be in jail ♪]
A hatched pattern fills the screen. The background is light grey and the pattern on top is blue. An airplane is depicted moving across the screen. Text appears behind the tail of the plane: NADIA FLIES TO TORONTO.
[02:03 - 02:12]
[♪ I don't know, in the room [unintelligible] what she stole ♪]
A live action scene fills the screen. It is obscured by static or noise caused by the age of the VHS tape this digitized version of the video is sourced from. A shadowed figure is visible standing in front of a white backdrop. The figure wears dark clothing and is holding an object that can’t quite be identified but looks like a Polaroid camera. This we suppose is the Nadia character.
[02:13 - 02:36]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
[♪ You should be in jail, jail jail. You should be in jail ♪]
The video returns to a Telidon image. In this instance it consists of a light grey background. A female figure appears. She is holding the same object as the figure in the previous image. A blue diamond shape emerges from the object the character holds. The character disappears into the blue diamond shape. The grey background is now empty.
[02:37 - 03:05]
A blue background appears. The blue diamond shape returns. A black silhouette of a figure appears in the diamond shape. Black text is overlaid reading: NADIA HAS PROJECTED HERSELF INTO HER OWN MIND. SHE CAN CREATE SOMETHING HERE AND THEN TRANSFER IT TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
[03:06 - 03:17]
A fuschia background appears. A diamond shape pops up and it is repeated horizontally and vertically. A blue stick figure is drawn on top of the repeated diamond shapes.
[03:18 - 03:58]
[♪ You should be in jail, jail jail. You should be in jail ♪]
A black screen appears. A grey shape begins to materialize in the centre of the picture plane. The shape becomes legible as a muscular male figure, looking to the right of the image. Fuschia diamond shapes begin to appear across the sculptural man’s body. Grey text, the same shade the male figure is rendered in reads: TEMPTATION.
[03:59 - 04:15]
A hatched background appears with a muted rainbow gradient and white vertical lines overtop. The background is accented with lines that make it appear as a female body with the right breast visible. Atop this figure is another female figure rendered in pink. Her left breast is bare and her red bra dangles from her right shoulder. Red text reads; NADIA DISCARDS HER BRA.
[04:16 - 04:39]
[♪ Can she maintain her autonomy? ♪]
[♪ Will she be what others want? ♪]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
We return to the live action imagery. The Nadia character appears in the centre of the screen amid a background lit in yellow. She is joined by a man also wearing black who walks across the screen. He exits and then reenters, standing behind her. Nadia is positioned askew and the male character stands forward, facing the camera.
[04:40 - 05:11]
[♪ Or will she hold her own? ♪]
[♪ You should be in jail, jail ♪]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
[♪ You should be in jail ♪]
The video returns to Telidon imagery. A black background with a blue grid texture appears. A grey background subsumes much of the frame except for an outline of a female figure in the centre. A black grid pattern appears on top of the entire image. Blue text appears in the centre: THE END.
[05:12 - 05:25]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
[♪ Jail jail ♪]
[♪ Whoahhhhhhhh ♪]
[♪ You should be in jail ♪]
A solid black background with a grey rectangle in the centre of it, materializes. A portrait of a figure wearing a black turtleneck is drawn. The figure is rendered in profile, facing the right of the frame. Their hair is depicted with a pink texture and they have red lips.
The name of the artist who created the artwork appears in black text at the top of the image: JOHN GURRIN
The year the artwork was made appears in grey text at the bottom of the image: 1983.
The image fades to black.
[Video description by Shauna Jean Doherty.]
