Is the Oasis of Sin part of the American landscape or merely a grand illusion embedded in our collective imagination? Consisting of sweeping aerial shots of the neon city and an ominously abstract sound design, this short experimental film reduces Vegas to its essence: color, shape, motion, and sound. In the process, it re-imagines one of our most prominent cultural markers as an elaborate model landscape—the embodiment of the post-modern simulacrum.  TW