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Hontō ni Atta Gokudô no Bideo

Hontō ni Atta Gokudô no Bideo

2011 • 52 min • Japan
The film includes the real life of the “yakuza,” with its abusive language, including the yakuza's drop-offs, shocking footage of pinky finger stuffing, an outburst accidentally filmed at a snack bar, lynching in a back alley, harassment of a hostess, debt collection, and a polemical tongue fight that leaves one shaking.
Withered: Live in Torment

Withered: Live in Torment

2011 • 35 min
Withered live performance August 26, 2011. Filmed at the historic Masquerade in Atlanta, Ga.
Kangaroo Mob

Kangaroo Mob

2011 • 60 min
Meet the mob of street smart kangaroos moving into Australia's capital city and the ecologists following their every move. Over the course of one drought-stricken year we follow mob leader, Black Spot, and kangaroo mother, Madge, with her two young joeys - Sonny and Alice. Here is a look at what happens when human development encroaches on wildlife habitat and two very different species are forced to co-exist.
Elsie, Nancy och framgången

Elsie, Nancy och framgången

2011 • 55 min
Elsie Johansson is the girl from poor Sweden who broke through at the age of 48 and became a successful author. The novel about working-class girl Nancy became a bestseller. Elsie Johansson has traveled country and kingdom and talked about writing, about women's creative power, about love and eroticism, about daring to do what she did; resign from Posten and create a life of your own. But leaving your roots requires a high price.
Musikresan

Musikresan

2011 • 42 min
An easy trip a bit criss-cross that goes to Hjo and Gambia, Vimmerby and Ecuador, Greenland and Solvalla and Sarajevo. And on the trip you get to meet Ingemar Johansson and Ingmar Bergman and Gösta Bohman and Olof Palme and General Franco. And then the ruffler and the municipal councilor. And you can enter Livets Ord and ride the Inlandsbanan and listen to Internationalen and Cielito Lindo and O Great Gud and Grindslanten and Viva Espana.
Paris Recyclers

Paris Recyclers

2011 • 5 min • Austria
Paris – picturesque and cosmopolitan, chansons and street art, Paris Recyclers portraits the cultural, social and urban fabrics of this city by means of experimental animation. The viewer is guided to urban hideouts where little creatures dwell.
The Root That Ate Roger Williams

The Root That Ate Roger Williams

2011 • 12 min • United States of America
A documentary of what happened to the remains of Providence, Rhode Island’s champion of free religion and a club based on the actual folklore of the root.
Hokus Pokus

Hokus Pokus

2011 • 11 min • Netherlands, Sweden
Hokus Pokus is a work about the constant cycles of life and death, about the 4 seasons, the sense of coming to life and a philosophical skeleton that builds a portal to enter a parallel reality. If you were thinking of becoming a wizard, perhaps you have been one all along.
Village and Elsewhere: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes, Jeff Koons’ Untitled, and Thai Villagers

Village and Elsewhere: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes, Jeff Koons’ Untitled, and Thai Villagers

2011 • 20 min
The film is shot inside a prayer hall of a Buddhist temple. In the background of its single tableau shot, we see an enormous gold-framed reproduction of an untitled painting by Jeff Koons that is displayed frontally on the left side of the screen. Beside it, toward the right side of the screen, there is a reproduction of a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, which is encased in a matching gold frame equal in size to the one framing Koons's work. In the foreground, there are several rows of lively spectator-figures, children and neatly dressed older women - including Araya herself - all of whom are sitting with their backs to the camera on a fandango pink carpet facing the two reproductions. A figure stands next to the framed reproductions and faces the camera. He is a Buddhist monk who delivers a humorous, didactic sermon on the third Buddhist precept, the prohibition of sexual misconduct, using the images as visual aids.
King Eternal

King Eternal

2011 • 15 min
On their rite or passage journey, life-long friends Chu'a and Kele set off into the forest unaware of an ancient being that awaits them in the dark.
Heavy Metal Sharks Calming Jaws Reversal Film

Heavy Metal Sharks Calming Jaws Reversal Film

2011 • 7 min
faded pink super 8 film print - library copy of select scenes from Jaws - from Lorain, Ohio public library - treated with black fabric dye enriched with heavy metals: iron and zinc vitamins, celluloid grated with stone, whipped with hair headbanging, impressed with thumb and pink prints devil ears.
Hans Litten vs. Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant

Hans Litten vs. Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant

2011 • 59 min
Documentary combining eyewitness testimony and expert interviews with original archive material to explore the story of lawyer Hans Litten's public attempt to challenge Hitler.
Performance at the Center of the World

Performance at the Center of the World

2011 • 6 min • United States of America
Performance for El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011, in Time Square, New York.
Broken Border

Broken Border

2011 • 18 min
In all the borders of Iran, smuggling of fuels is so prevalent that many people are engaged with it. The type of equipment for carrying the smuggled cargo is based on the geographical situation, but in all situations human beings play the most important role. The reasons for smuggling also vary, based on the existing situation in these areas. This film follows smugglers who work on the boarder between West Iran and Iraq (Kurdistan). It accompanies people who don’t talk to anybody during the day, seeing their daily lives and the jobs related to smuggling. Their cargo is taken over mountains and valleys, eventually reaching their final destination in Iraq. Here they find a kind of traditional café that allows the labourers to rest.
Breaking the Wall of Silence

Breaking the Wall of Silence

2011 • 50 min
"Breaking the Wall of Silence" is a documentary that depicts a brave, peaceful, vulnerable culture fighting against an aggressive neighbor. It is a story of personal sacrifice and strength of soul. Tibetan monks, risking their lives, are trying to overcome the Himalayas and return to their native Tibet. The authors of the film create a compelling portrait of the Dalai Lama, the leader of the Tibetan spirit. The film begins with the Voice of Tibet, a small radio station that broadcasts independent news to Tibet. China is trying in various ways to stop the operation of this radio station.
Kill/Capture

Kill/Capture

2011 • 53 min
Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden last week was one of the U.S. military's best-kept secrets: a covert campaign that officials have credited with taking out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-month investigation by FRONTLINE has gone inside the military's "kill/capture" operations to discover new evidence of the program's impact, and its costs.
The Nuke Test Loos End

The Nuke Test Loos End

2011 • 23 min
Lou Reed - Live at Vieilles Charrues Festival, France

Lou Reed - Live at Vieilles Charrues Festival, France

2011 • 59 min
Lou Reed at Lou Reed at the Vieilles Charrues Festival, France. July 17, 2011
Ethereal Chrysalis

Ethereal Chrysalis

2011 • 10 min
Enter the multidimensional maze of the Ethereal Chrysalis, where the doors of perception become the annihilation of all rational thoughts.
Roll on Columbia: Woody Guthrie & the Bonneville Power Administration

Roll on Columbia: Woody Guthrie & the Bonneville Power Administration

2011 • 57 min • United States of America
In early May of 1941, an unemployed Woody Guthrie and his wife, Mary, packed their three children into a battered Pontiac and left southern California for Portland, Oregon. All he had waiting for him in the Northwest was the job of writing songs for a documentary film about the dams being built on the Columbia River. This film details the thirty day contract Woody had as a temporary worker for the Bonneville Power Administration.
Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition

Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition

2011 • 10 min
In 2003, Rosler announced an open call for a live re-staging of her 1975 video Semiotics of the Kitchen, to be held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, for A Short History of Performance, Part II. Twenty-six women — actors, artists, curators, and museum staff among them — participated in a rotating performance of the work. On three sets stocked with kitchen utensils, the participants enacted the work in front of an audience, while their performances also appeared on monitors throughout the gallery. At the end of the performance, the three groups of women came together to present the last few gestures of the video — including its final shrug. Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition documents the preliminary rehearsals with Rosler and the public event, the “audition.”
&Human

&Human

2011 • 4 min
Pharmaceutical companies were granted a six-month patent extension in 1997 for any drug that was tested on children. I went to a park to stage a body politic art/protest pop-up, critical of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ support of for-profit pediatric research. The kids at the park take over!
The Death of Sisyphus

The Death of Sisyphus

2011 • 5 min
Revisiting the relationship between comics and cinema, architecture and space, sounds and movement.
Surf + Turf

Surf + Turf

2011 • 25 min
Contemporary ambiguities on the Jersey shore: the look is secular, the lifestyle capitalist, the religion orthodox. 40,000 Syrian Jews have moved into a landscape previously occupied by Irish, Italian, and the quite different sect of Askenazi Jews. The “unmelted pot” of America’s small towns is set within memory and contemporary oppositions. What does it mean to have class in America? What does it mean to be Jewish? I think of conflicts between Israel and Palestine, Serbia and Bosnia, India and Pakistan: neighboring families and races split apart by religion. Extreme poverty enforces the tribal, while extreme wealth maintains it. Surf and Turf provides no easy answers but raises issues that have too long stayed behind closed doors: what do we say when we think no one is listening?