Other Cinema
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Tribulation 99
Upon its release in 1991, TRIBULATION 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Craig Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudodocumentary” presents a factual chronicle of U.S. intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental...Watch Movie
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LBJ
Most definitely an unauthorized biography, Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez scavenges imagery from LIFE magazine, cowboy movies and Playboy to lampoon Lyndon B. Johnson’s tyranny. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King, Jr. are all laid at...Watch Movie
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Mock Up on Mu
Notorious Bay Area kino-renegade Craig Baldwin tops his earlier found-footage operas SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM and SONIC OUTLAWS with the rapid-fire pulp serial-cum-political-tract piss-take on California's major industrial complexes: military, entertainment and religious. Hitting upon everything...Watch Movie
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Sonic Outlaws
Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music. Craig Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property...Watch Movie
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The Net
Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck’s THE NET explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology – a system that...Watch Movie
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Spectres of the Spectrum
The director of TRIBULATION 99 and SONIC OUTLAWS returns with his grandest work to date! SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM plunders Craig Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these...Watch Movie
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So Wrong They're Right
SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT chronicles a 10,000 mile journey around the U.S. in search of “trackers,” fanatical collectors of 8-track tapes, those funky clunky pre-recorded plastic cartridges from the 1970s. Director Russ Forster and cinematographer Dan Sutherland capture over...Watch Movie
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The Wheel of Torment
A perfect little nightmare, WHEEL OF TORMENT takes several dizzying turns around Hieronymus Bosch’s epic pageants of violence. Eric Henry, Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher channel the rough-and-ready spirit of cut-out animation even as they avail themselves of digital imaging to...Watch Movie
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RocketKitKongoKit
This kaleidoscopic, amphetamine-paced tour de force uses a barrage of found-footage images and rapid-fire narration to trace a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960. The CIA, German munitions manufacturers and American popular culture are all indicted in this comic...Watch Movie
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The Fear
A young woman is having nightmares. Her husband reassures her that there is a rational basis for her fears. But what is that noise in the closet? A ghoulish vision of a woman's place that doubles as a stylish homage to 1970s horror, THE FEAR wrings dread out of every camera movement and splash of...Watch Movie
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Wild Gunman
Mobilizing wildly diverse found-footage fragments, obsessive optical printing and a dense "musique concrete" soundtrack, a maniac montage of pop-cultural amusements, cowboy iconography and advertising imagery is re-contextualized within the contemporary geopolitical crisis in this scathing...Watch Movie
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79 Primaveras
Santiago Alvarez’s portrait of Ho Chi Minh braids beauty and devastation from its opening montage of blooming flowers and bomb clouds. Poring over documentary footage of the Vietnamese leader to search out the signs of bravery, Alvarez tracks Ho's political education from the French communist...Watch Movie
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Our Favorite Things
Twenty-seven years of reigning Kulture Kut-up Kings Negativland's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package. Created with eighteen other filmmakers from all over the USA (and one a capella group from Detroit), OUR FAVORITE...Watch Movie
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El Tigre Saltó y Mató, Pero Morirá... Morirá...
Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez's hurried response to the 1973 Chilean coup d’état rests upon the music of Victor Jara, the folk singer who was brutally murdered within days after Augusto Pinochet assumed power. Connecting events in Chile to other repressive police crackdowns...Watch Movie
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¡O No Coronado!
This black-comic Conquistador chronicle aggressively reconstructs the 1540 Spanish invasion of those Pueblo Indian lands now known as the American Southwest through a multifarious, mixed-tense montage. Live-action vignettes are densely woven into wildly diverse "found" footage, video-to-film FX...Watch Movie
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Cerro Pelado
Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl’s OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa’s TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to Cuba’s sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political...Watch Movie
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Sneak Attack
SNEAK ATTACK is both spiffy sci-fi pastiche and a thrilling exercise in synchronicity. Eric Henry, Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher follow the incessant cues of DJ Qbert’s turntablism, integrating samples as dialog and working the image into the cartoon equivalent of break-dancing.Watch Movie
