In 1994, Miguel Soares made the video Copyright Law, a sequence of hundreds of images recorded from both television and video cassettes, visually illustrating the sound piece Crosley Bendix discusses the U.S. Copyright Act (1992) by Negativland. At the end of 2002, he sent this video to Mark Hosler, one of the group’s members, and was immediately invited by Negativland to make a video based on one of their tracks. Miguel Soares chose Time Zones, one of his favourite tracks from the group’s best known album, Escape from Noise (1987). In order to make the animation, the artist followed a principle of meticulous synchronisation with that textured sound collage, proposing a remarkable interpretation of the textual narrative with its field of allusions and semantic associations — the Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, the instrumentalisation of the media as a weapon of psychological warfare and the use of computers as a means of political and ideological control. Throughout the work, image and sound are interwoven in a symbiotic relationship, without either of them ever gaining primacy over the other. The animation begins with an amusing pastiche of the informative television documentary, furnishing geographical, ethnographic and statistical data about the Autonomous Komi Republic (a play on words between Komi, an autonomous republic of the former Soviet Union and nowadays forming part of the Russian Federation, and “Commie”, a depreciative term used in the USA to refer to Communists). After this, we follow a phone conversation between a radio listener (or television viewer, we never find out exactly which) speaking from his home and a (radio or television) chat show host speaking from the studio. In answer to a question asked by the host — “Do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union?” — there follows a fragmented and repetitive dialogue between the two, in a constant counterpoint of image and sound, in which the listener, not knowing the answer, speaks in a confused way about the unrivalled power of the USA, the need to use computers to control the deviations and imperfections of the population, or the unbreakable relationship between politics and religion. The images alternate between the host and the listener, being interspersed with others that show, for example, air bases with flying saucers hidden in their hangars, nuclear missiles being launched from a cemetery, red walls (representing the time zones) running across the map of Russia and invading the interiors of the houses, a mass attack on the Soviet Union by the United States, or nuclear missiles flying over the frozen wastelands of Siberia. This animation was worked on almost every day for a year, with constant feedback being provided throughout the whole process by Negativland, and especially by Mark Hosler. In 2005 and 2006, the animation was presented at the Negativlandland exhibition, held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the formation of Negativland, and in 2007 it was included on the DVD Our Favorite Things, a compilation of eighteen videos made from sound pieces by the group.