Jim Finn

Films

Sharambaba
Sharambaba

Dir. Jim Finn
(1999)    3 minutes

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."

Comunista!
Comunista!

Dir. Jim Finn
(2001)    4 minutes

It's party time! Who doesn't enjoy a party? Reptiles, perhaps.

el güero
el güero

Dir. Jim Finn
(2001)    3 minutes

Filmmaker Jim Finn places himself in the center of the action in this oddity with plenty of moves. Dance moves, that is.

Wüstenspringmaus
Wüstenspringmaus

Dir. Jim Finn
(2002)    3 minutes

WÜSTENSPRINGMAUS. Once you've seen it, you can never un-see it.

Decision '80
Decision '80

Dir. Jim Finn
(2003)    10 minutes

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

super-max
super-max

Dir. Jim Finn
(2003)    13 minutes

Prisons step in to the limelight in Jim Finn's SUPER-MAX, a portrait of these monstrosities photographed while passing in a vehicle.

el moro
el moro

La Lotería XXI
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    2 minutes

Disparate sources produce unusual and unexpected results in Jim Finn's EL MORO, another ingenious installment in his LA LOTERIA series.

el valiente
el valiente

La Lotería XXV
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    4 minutes

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

la calavera
la calavera

La Lotería XLVI
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    3 minutes

The division between game-play and reality falls into nothingness.

el corazón
el corazón

La Lotería XXXIX
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    3 minutes

EL CORAZON is about a man who loves his team and his girl.

la rosa
la rosa

La Lotería XLIV
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    3 minutes

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

la ardilla
la ardilla

La Lotería XXXIX
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    2 minutes

LA ARDILLA finds filmmaker Jim Finn in a brief routine with a furry friend, paired with a duet by Juan Gabriel and Rocío Durcal.

la cobra
la cobra

La Loteria XXXVIII
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    3 minutes

A love song about a drowned girl is illustrated in a bath and a tanning booth.

la palmera
la palmera

La Lotería XX
Dir. Jim Finn
(2004)    2 minutes

A love letter from a Florida car wash.

el azteca
el azteca

La Lotería XI
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    3 minutes

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

la bandera
la bandera

La Lotería XLII
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    2 minutes

American imperialism reveals itself in a small inlet in Florida.

el payaso
el payaso

La Lotería V
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    3 minutes

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

el pajaro
el pajaro

La Lotería XXVIII
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    2 minutes

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

el paraguas
el paraguas

La Lotería V
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    4 minutes

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

la estrella
la estrella

La Lotería XXXVIII
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    3 minutes

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

la mano
la mano

La Lotería LII
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    2 minutes

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

la corona
la corona

La Lotería XLVIII
Dir. Jim Finn
(2005)    1 minute

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

Interkosmos
Interkosmos

Dir. Jim Finn
(2006)    71 minutes

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.

La Trinchera Luminosa del Presid...
La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo

The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo
Dir. Jim Finn
(2007)    60 minutes

LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO has the look of a Maoist home movie from the 80’s. Shot in Hi-8 video in New Mexico, the film is one day in a Shining Path women’s prison cellblock in Peru.

The Juche Idea
The Juche Idea

Dir. Jim Finn
(2008)    62 minutes

THE JUCHE IDEA is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Both sardonic satire and historical excavation, the film is an exuberant collage that reveals the absurdity at the heart of Kim-Jong-il's regime.

Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell

Dir. Jim Finn
(2009)    3 minutes

River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur.

Great Man and Cinema
Great Man and Cinema

Dir. Jim Finn
(2009)    4 minutes

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.

Recent Reviews

Wüstenspringmaus

At least it's short.


Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell

He should have to sit in a dark cell. He didn't do any good for the United States. I likes it.


Wüstenspringmaus

WÜSTENSPRINGMAUS is one of those films I find incredibly funny but cannot articulate why. "The wustenspringmaus is like a summer rain..." Genius!


The Juche Idea

The description of this movie is right-on--It's very interesting. If you don't know anything about North or South Korea, this is worth a watch...


el valiente

incredible!