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In his 1917 "Farewell Letter to Swiss Workers," Lenin lauds the "proletarian revolution that is beginning in Europe." His words take on modern relevance in this look at a current East German community. Unemployed workers have been... more>
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"The real magic lies not only in the fact that we were acknowledged, but that really, none of us were ever supposed to get there," says filmmaker Aaron Rose. Beautiful Losers celebrates the independent do-it-yourself spirit that... more>
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Belarus is Europe's last dictatorship, a society of total political control, mass poverty and nuclear pollution. Human-rights activists are regularly persecuted and mercilessly punished by an intolerant government. Fear keeps... more>
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In his latest film, Luke Fowler presents the reclusive life of Bogman Palmjaguar, a one-time patient of R.D. Laing, the iconoclast psychotherapist featured in Fowler's earlier work What You See Is Where You're At. Evocative field... more>
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Lilibeth Cuenca explores the national sport of her native Philippines, cockfighting. Blending the pop music persona of a half-plucked dancing cock with bloody documentary footage of real fights and betting, she critiques male... more>
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C-SPAN meets the art scene in A Crime Against Art. This film is based on a "trial" staged at an art fair in Madrid in February 2007. In turn, both trials were inspired by the mock trials organized by André Breton in the 1920s and '30s.... more>
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From the producer of Grizzly Man comes a literary documentary that will send you back to your bookshelf, out to the library and into the bookstore. Harlan Ellison may be the greatest unknown writer of our time. Like Ray Bradbury and... more>
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Filmmaker Anna Azevedo crafts a lush world that exists somewhere between memory and the senses, a place where snow meets the sea, where days are filled with stars and nights are filled with sun. Super-8 footage from the 1970s animates... more>
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In 1969 three young artists living in Toronto changed their names to Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz and AA Bronson, formed General Idea and quickly became "art stars" in an international movement that was transforming conventional ideas... more>
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In 1970s Vilnius, Lithuania, sculptor Lew Kerbel unveils his 40-ton bust of Karl Marx to a crowd of more than 250,000 people. Only 20 years later, the nation's revolution stamps out all traces of social realism in the country. Within... more>
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A woman in a panda bear costume performs an erotic pole dance. Facing the camera, her emotionless face seeks the audience's gaze. Alternating between urgency and parody, she repeats her mantra: "Je suis une bombe." She controls her... more>
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In Tokyo, filmmaker Hito Steyerl searches for a photo series that she posed for in 1987 as a rope-bondage model. Looking at images of herself shot in the nawa-shibari style, bound and suspended in the air, Steyerl broadens the film's... more>
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Maria Zharko appears to be a simple woman, living a simple life. She has chosen to live in the Belarusian countryside surrounded by nature, majestic white geese, curious puppies and stoic cows. But as the layers of her life delicately... more>
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Artist Esra Ersen explores urban processes and how they affect the people who experience them firsthand. Struck by the radical transformation currently taking place in Liverpool in the run-up to being a European Capital of Culture,... more>
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Where is the border between music, sound and noise? What can the answer tell us about the political situation under capitalism? These are questions that the British Scratch Orchestra tried to answer in the 1960s with the motto... more>
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Rosa's Letters - Telling a Story centres on the letters of Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), pioneering Polish socialist, philosopher and revolutionary. But rather than simply documenting the life of a historical personality, artist Pia... more>
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A group of friends daytrip into the forest to unearth a slumbering history. Inspired by the search for a Lenin statue that was moved in the wake of German political shifts, the video explores an urban environment for traces of a... more>
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In this 1984 video, General Idea cleverly takes on the mass media's focus on gossip, spectacle and celebrity instead of content in its treatment of art and artists. Using irony, parody, excerpts from television shows and their own... more>
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Cerebral and substantial in its focus, yet eclectic and funky in tone, Steypa explores the relationship between inspiration, creativity, culture and environment through a collaboration of seven of Iceland's most acclaimed young... more>
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