Nic Nicosia

Middletown takes the viewer on a winding driving tour of the Dallas suburb Middletown, the artist’s hometown. The video’s leisurely pace enables viewers to reflect on all that is superficial and mundane in our everyday surroundings. The video is nearly devoid of humans, and the circus-like musical soundtrack leaves viewers with an eerie feeling of isolation. Middletown fits into the artist’s larger body of voyeuristic work by focusing on a skeptical meditation on the American dream of middle-class suburbia.