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Spotlight on Cannes

Fandor travels to the French Riviera with 14 laudable films spanning 50 years of the Cannes Film Festival.

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Jim Finn

"Steeped in the obsolete language of revolutionary art," the New York Times said Jim Finn's films "often play like unearthed artifacts from an alternate universe." His award-winning movies have been called "Utopian comedies" and "trompe l'oeil films." The trilogy of communist features is in the permanent collection of the MoMA and he has had retrospectives in seven countries. His movies have screened widely at festivals like Sundance, Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, AFI and Edinburgh as well as museums and cinematheques. He has been making films, videos, revolutionary needlepoint pillows and photographs for over a decade.

INTERKOSMOS, his first feature film, was called "a retro gust of communist utopianism" by the Village Voice and "charming and fantastic, so full of rare atmospheres" by Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. His second feature LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO was put on the Village Voice's "Top 10 Year in Experimental Film." And Variety called THE JUCHE IDEA, his film about a North Korean art residency, "brilliant" and said all three films "upturn notions of documentary and fiction, propaganda thought, reality and restaging, and even what an 'experimental film' actually is." He is featured in a 2010 Phaidon Press book called "Take 100: The Future of Film-100 New Directors." He was born in St. Louis and is currently teaching at Bard College in New York.

Films

Sharambaba

A young communist girl named Sharambaba resists her suitor in a carriage. "Marriage is like a mad dog on wood. It runs back and forth, frantic. Thinking how to get off. And yet it is happy."
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Sharambaba

(1999) 3 min

American Drama

Jim Finn

A young communist girl named Sharambaba resists her suitor in a carriage. "Marriage is like a mad dog on...
Granada

An American hipster wakes up on his Chicago rooftop wedged in between four sultry flamenco dancers. Jim Finn's hallucinatory staging and bold camera angles offers a distinctly surreal take on the Spanish dance that is halfway between the classic spaghetti westerns and Jim Jarmusch's downtown reveries. - Max Goldberg
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Granada

(1999) 7 min

American Independent

Jim Finn

An American hipster wakes up on his Chicago rooftop wedged in between four sultry flamenco dancers. Jim...
Comunista!

"You are invited to Jim’s party! Snake optional." - Cinematexas Festival
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Comunista!

(2001) 4 min

American Avant-garde

Jim Finn

"You are invited to Jim’s party! Snake optional." - Cinematexas Festival
el güero

"A refreshing look at karaoke, psychedelic dance moves and donuts all mashed together into a small and swinging film about a man who considers his private thoughts and private jokes worth sharing with a large audience. And it’s unlikely that many would disagree." - Impakt Festival
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el güero

(2001) 3 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

"A refreshing look at karaoke, psychedelic dance moves and donuts all mashed together into a small and...

Wüstenspringmaus

"Jim Finn's WÜSTENSPRINGMAUS, a well-sprung, rear-screened account of a gerbil's life in the '70s." - Guy Maddin, Film Comment
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Wüstenspringmaus

(2002) 3 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

"Jim Finn's WÜSTENSPRINGMAUS, a well-sprung, rear-screened account of a...
Decision '80

In the midst of election season, it's 1980 all over again. Once was enough, though.
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Decision '80

(2003) 10 min

American Avant-garde

Jim Finn

"A decisive moment in American history remixed into the prelude to your worst f***ing nightmare." - New...
super-max

"Finn's chilling SUPER-MAX is a tour of maximum security prisons shot from a moving car, their hulking forms framed by telephone poles and power lines that divide landscape and sky. The concluding voice-over, making reference to Lewis and Clark, implicitly equates the European occupation of this continent with imprisonment."...
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super-max

(2003) 13 min

American Documentary

Jim Finn

"Finn's chilling SUPER-MAX is a tour of maximum security prisons shot from a moving car, their hulking...
el moro

"Deep down, we have always suspected there must be some connection between J.R.R. Tolkien, Star Trek and the rise of the radical Left. Leave it to Jim Finn to bring it all together." - New York Underground Film Festival
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el moro

(2004) 2 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

"Deep down, we have always suspected there must be some connection between J.R.R. Tolkien, Star Trek and...

el valiente

EL VALIENTE is a collection of the 1970s Bond girls who never knew loneliness "until I met you."
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el valiente

(2004) 4 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

EL VALIENTE is a collection of the 1970s Bond girls who never knew loneliness "until I met you."
la calavera

"The repetitive missile from a war plane blurs into a war game. Add an uplifting song to it and you have a perfectly entertaining video game. Or is it reality?" - L.A. Freewaves
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la calavera

(2004) 3 min

American Avant-garde

Jim Finn

"The repetitive missile from a war plane blurs into a war game. Add an uplifting song to it and you have a...
el corazón

EL CORAZON is about a man who loves his team and his girl. Not necessarily in that order.
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el corazón

(2004) 3 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

EL CORAZON is about a man who loves his team and his girl. Not necessarily in that order.
la rosa

A cautionary tale of an emperor from a great state who takes whatever he wants.
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la rosa

(2004) 3 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

A cautionary tale of an emperor from a great state who takes whatever he wants.

la ardilla

LA ARDILLA finds filmmaker Jim Finn in a brief routine with a furry friend, paired with a duet by Juan Gabriel and Rocío Durcal. Writes Senses of Cinema, "Finn beckons tenderly, patiently, and finally has you, and the squirrel, nibbling from his seductively pursed lips."
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la ardilla

(2004) 2 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

LA ARDILLA finds filmmaker Jim Finn in a brief routine with a furry friend, paired with a duet by Juan...
la cobra

A love song about a drowned girl is illustrated in a bath and a tanning booth. The narrative is largely supported by the music. The images? Allegorical? Absurd, perhaps.
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la cobra

(2004) 3 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

A love song about a drowned girl is illustrated in a bath and a tanning booth. The narrative is largely...
la palmera

A love letter from a Florida car wash.
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la palmera

(2004) 2 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

A love letter from a Florida car wash.
el azteca

Ricardo Montablan’s Khan in the 1960s and the 1980s is still fighting the good fight: "It's not enough to pray!"
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el azteca

(2005) 3 min

American Avant-garde

Jim Finn

Ricardo Montablan’s Khan in the 1960s and the 1980s is still fighting the good fight: "It's not enough to...

la bandera

American imperialism reveals itself in a small inlet in Florida.
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la bandera

(2005) 2 min

American Short

Jim Finn

American imperialism reveals itself in a small inlet in Florida.
el payaso

Every day in the habitrail is like the 1967 NFL Championship game.
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el payaso

(2005) 3 min

American Short

Jim Finn

Every day in the habitrail is like the 1967 NFL Championship game.
el pajaro

A red-state playoff game is the excuse for a world uprising.
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el pajaro

(2005) 2 min

American Short

Jim Finn

A red-state playoff game is the excuse for a world uprising.
el paraguas

Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein met in 1985: "Oh the wind and the rain."
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el paraguas

(2005) 4 min

American Avant-garde

Jim Finn

Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein met in 1985: "Oh the wind and the rain."

la estrella

Cosmonaut stamps and communist icons turn a Frank and Nancy Sinatra song into another Internationale.
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la estrella

(2005) 3 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

Cosmonaut stamps and communist icons turn a Frank and Nancy Sinatra song into another Internationale.
la mano

A religious revival in the O.C.: "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!"
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la mano

(2005) 2 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

A religious revival in the O.C.: "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!"
la corona

The Bush inner circle at Crawford moving to the sounds of the Mexican Frank Sinatra.
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la corona

(2005) 1 min

American Cult

Jim Finn

The Bush inner circle at Crawford moving to the sounds of the Mexican Frank Sinatra.
Interkosmos

In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe replete with musical numbers and...
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Interkosmos

(2006) 71 min

American Comedy

Jim Finn

"What a delight! How charming and fantastic, so full of rare atmospheres." – Guy Maddin

La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo

LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO has the look of a Maoist home movie from the 1980s. Shot in Hi-8 video in New Mexico, the film is one day in a Shining Path women’s prison cellblock in Peru. After capture, the Gang-of-Four Maoist revolutionaries basically ran their cellblocks as if they...
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La Trinchera Luminosa del...

(2007) 60 min

American Drama

Jim Finn

LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO has the look of a Maoist home...
The Juche Idea

Jim Finn's THE JUCHE IDEA is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Mixing together eye-popping archival footage with deadpan re-enactments, Finn has created a complex docu-fiction that is equally thought-provoking and entertaining. Translated as "self-reliance," Juche...
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The Juche Idea

(2008) 62 min

North Korean Comedy

Jim Finn

Official selection of the 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell

River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired "hero of the right." Impunity is not...
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell

(2009) 3 min

American Drama

Jim Finn

River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's...
Great Man and Cinema

Kim Jong Il, the Stalinist David O. Selznick, ran the state film studio as a way of promoting his own and his father's cult of personality. The film's title GREAT MAN AND CINEMA comes from a propaganda booklet filled with stories of how the Dear Leader has written, edited, produced and given acting advice...
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Great Man and Cinema

(2009) 4 min

American Avant-garde

Jim Finn

Official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

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Science Fiction / Alternate Universe
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Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
Sport / Baseball
Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
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Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
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Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
Short / Documentary
Short / Documentary
Short / Documentary
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Independent / Documentary
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Independent / Documentary
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Independent / Documentary
Short / Ephemera
Sport / Hockey
Comedy / Mockumentary
Comedy / Mockumentary
Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
Music / Musical
Short / Narrative
Independent / Narrative
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Independent / Narrative
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Short / Non-Narrative
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International / Asian / North Korean
Drama / Political
Documentary / Political
Documentary / Political
Documentary / Political
Documentary / Political
Drama / Political
Documentary / Propaganda
Documentary / Propaganda
Cult / Hyperreality / Pseudo-pseudodocumentary
Cult / Hyperreality / Pseudo-pseudodocumentary
Cult / Hyperreality / Pseudo-pseudodocumentary
Drama / Pseudodocumentary
Cult / Psychotronic
Cult / Psychotronic
Cult / Psychotronic
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Cult / Psychotronic
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Cult / Psychotronic
Cult / Psychotronic
Cult / Psychotronic
Cult / Psychotronic
Cult / Psychotronic
Cult / Psychotronic
Drama / Romantic Drama
Cult / Hyperreality / Shockumentary
Cult / Hyperreality / Shockumentary
Cult / Hyperreality / Shockumentary
Cult / Hyperreality / Shockumentary
Cult / Hyperreality / Shockumentary
Documentary / Social Issues
Drama / Social Realism
Science Fiction / Space Travel
Documentary / Sport
Sport
Science Fiction / Utopia/Dystopia

Recent Reviews

la corona

my review will take longer to write than this snippet took to watch; this was funny like a you-tube video; nothing special, but worth a minute of time.

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Wüstenspringmaus

odd

Wüstenspringmaus

i've seen better

Decision '80

i don't get it.

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