Culture Jamming
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Across the Border
ACROSS THE BORDER is a collage of found footage and documentary images, radio Spanish/English tracks and commentary by Philippe Bourgois, a Stanford Anthropologist trapped in an offensive by the United States-backed Salvadoran Military forces. The film’s position against U.S. intervention in the third...Start your free trial to watch -
Being
A man sits in front of his TV. The program that he occasionally glances at is a montage of popular culture images: old movies, commercials and news clips. Accompanying the fleeting images is a loosely synchronous narrative on the evolution of man's belief systems. The man's behavior watching television becomes a commentary on...Start your free trial to watch
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Between 2 Deaths
Cross-dissolves become the stuff of séance in this uncanny contemplation of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO. Expertly matching the film's San Francisco locations and camera positions, Wago Kreider visits a second layer of absence upon Hitchcock’s already haunting masterpiece.Start your free trial to watch -
Blue Movie
Anais Nin's voice accompanies Mark Street's BLUE MOVIE, a mesmerizing formal treatment of what appear to be 1930s or 1950s 16mm porn movies whose original content has been optically zoomed into and then carefully augmented with color overlays and a post-production technique called step-printing. These detail the subtle facial...Start your free trial to watch -
Broken News
BROKEN NEWS is an intimate attempt at reporting, mediating and being mediated. This comes from an experiment/performance in which I had a news desk set up at the foot of my bed for 2 weeks. I would read only headlines all day and then deliver the “news” from memory at night. Then, I would wake myself up in the middle of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens...Start your free trial to watch
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Diva Dolorosa
In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut affectionately captures the spirit of the World War I-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as LA DONNA NUDA (1914) and TIGRE REALE (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina Menichelli portrayed heroines teetering...Start your free trial to watch -
Double Take
An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE is a unique film that combines early 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels and Alfred Hitchcock (featuring his hilarious introductions to his TV show and movies, and interviews with actual Hitchcock impersonator...Start your free trial to watch -
Golden Digest
ANIMAL CHARM makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of tic-ridden babble, they force television to not make sense. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals an overall 'essence' of mass culture that would not be apprehended otherwise. Videos such as STUFFING, ASHLEY, and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Graceless
A post-9/11 meditation on the new millennium, THE GRACELESS is a video tapestry of digital and analogue artifacts rephotographed and collaged from discarded 16mm educational films, Air Force test footage, live broadcast streams of pre-invasion television news and reality entertainment. Layers of images collide and tear away,...Start your free trial to watch -
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...Start your free trial to watch




