These Places We've Learned to Call Home1996

A kaleidoscopic history of the American heartland, nuclear weapons and the Native American genocide.

A small intrusion of cockroaches scramble over magazine spreads of the good life while a schizophrenic pest voice-over mutters like an asylum inmate recalling the good old days, when food was plentiful and the roach traps were the enemy.

This brief film is Joshua Oppenheimer's most concentrated piece of socio-political commentary: a quick, colorful political cartoon of capitalism plucked out-of-context and set to a soundtrack that is both comic and somewhat sinister.

For eighty cents an hour, prisoners in a New Mexico prison answer telephones for the state tourism hotline.

A meditation on loss.

An installation work is based on a series of drawings of a family of dogs used as a psychoanalytic test in the 1950's.