Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances.
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Xperimental Eros invokes a shimmering fantasia of celluloid sensuality for the pleasure of our largest sex organ - the brain. Using exotic tropes and erotic footage from the world's oldest genre, this program of ardent auteurs spin grindhouse dross into arthouse gold with perverse panache. Be it tales of sexual obsession, rejected letters to Penthouse Forum, or the Mr. Nude Trucker Contest of 1976, no subject is taboo... nor above deconstruction.
UntitledA documentary that examines America's policies regarding making war, most recently the Iraq war and what is termed “the Bush doctrine”, which includes pre-emptive strikes. The author suggests that this policy has been in the works for many years, reviewing past wars in the 20th century. A variety of individuals are asked “Why de we fight?” and, predictably, come up with a variety of answers. This is followed by a look at today's U.S. military/industrial complex via interviews with individuals involved in it.
UntitledIn 1994, independent filmmaker David Blair created the first 3D online interactive film experiment: Waxweb.The hypermedia version of his digital film Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees. In Waxweb, images, sounds and text combine to form a non-linear story in which users can change the script by adding their own contributions that affect the course of the action.
UntitledWar Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another. The film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
UntitledBringing democracy and capitalism closer together Voteauction was a Website which offered US citizens to sell their presidential vote to the highest bidder during the Presidential Elections 2000, Al Gore vs. G.W. Bush. The Website was conceived by the student James Baumgartner and then sold to the austrian business-artists Hans Bernhard (founder of etoy) and Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM in Austria and (V)ote-auction Inc. in Sofia/Bulgaria [a subsidiary of the UBERMORGEN.COM group] for a undisclosed sum. Voteauction was UBERMORGEN.COMs feature Media Hacking performance in the year 2000.
Early attempts at critical observation of television were conditioned by the development of the first recording technology. This is the context of this historic Nam June Paik piece, a document about the feedback relationship between video and television, and the ability of television to filter and pixilate information. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
UntitledMillner casts herself as a fan whose life has an uncanny similarity to that of Roseanne Barr's televised replica. When Millner visits the set of Roseanne, the "excess" of fan and star meets in a comic finale that threatens life as we know it.
Lonely housewife in 1950's suburbia needs the freedom of a low priced Ford to avoid being a prisoner in her own home. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
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