Wearing has made pieces that concentrate on groups of people. One, Sixty Minute Silence (1996) is a video of people dressed in police uniforms sitting as if for a group photograph for an hour. Their initial stillness eventually gives way to fidgeting. Her film Drunk (2000) is of four drunk men staggering around a studio.
In 2 into 1, she separately interviewed a mother and her two sons. She then filmed them lip-synching the critical commentary made by the others, forcing participants (and even viewers) to confront the true nature of their relationships:
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