I Wish I Was Born in a Hollywood Movie

I Wish I Was Born in a Hollywood Movie is a site created by Maja Bajevic. Maja's work often deals with the boundary between what is public or advertised and what is private. This particular site is her first piece that uses the web as her medium. She addresses the Hollywood "dream machine" and how the scenes we are exposed to in Hollywood affect us. She explores how the glamorized representation of reality is portrayed in movies and compares it to actual reality. The site displays photos Maja took in Mexico City, Paris, Venice, and other places. Then it shows images found in tourist brochures, movies, and etc.

At first I was confused when I viewed the project because you cannot really distinguish which images she took and which images are from other sources. They are not really organized in any particular order and they are not still images. If you click on an image another series of images pops up. The random order at which this was arranged confused me. After thinking about it and exploring the project further, I started to understand her reasoning behind this more. Her objective was not to show the public images and compare them to the real images. Instead, she was showing how the line between the two is so blurred that it is sometimes hard to distinguish which is which.