Duke Riley

Duke Riley’s three-channel video installation Non-Essential Consultants, Inc. combines narrative and documentary filmmaking to portray an allegorical history implicating a duo of outlaw operatives responsible for a bed bug outbreak in Washington, DC. Harkening back to late 1960s spy thrillers, Non-Essential Consultants, Inc. finds a similar state in America today: a public distrust of both government and the media.