United States of America
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Highly simplified explanation of free-enterprise economics that fails to mention the idea of profit. 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.
UntitledRUN JANE, RUN Digital Stories by Survivors of Domestic Violence. Five Survivors. Five Strong Women. Five Engaging Stories. Marie grew up in a satanic cult. Pauletta's daughter was shot by her boyfriend. Christine was abused by her father. Kim's husband beat her. Shannon's father set the house on fire. The personal stories RUN, JANE, RUN were created in a Silence Speaks digital storytelling workshop for survivors of domestic violence. Alternately disturbing, shocking, enlightening, and encouraging, the stories reveal the determination of the women to survive, move on and thrive. Original music and animation complement home movie footage and personal photographs as each woman narrates her story.
A sound-bite blitzkrieg challenging the messages we have been from our mainstream media and the government it serves.
UntitledThe author gets herpes after a single sexual encounter with a cow-boy. This video reflects on this experience and the consequences it also reviews with irony the figure of the cow boy in the American culture. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Sadie, The Saddest Sadist narrates the travails of a female munitions worker in Britain. The story is ultimately about exchange; Sadie trades her labor for patriotic satisfaction and money in the munitions factory, and then gets into a different type of exchange with Jack, a sailor she meets on the street. In keeping with the themes of exchange and war, the visual and verbal languages of Sadie are systems of shared, public meaning: the cartoon and doggerel poetry.
Street vendors work in the cracks of globalization. They sell the fetishes of commercial globalization - Hulk statues, 7-Up, national and international currencies - but not on the official market, from which they've been left out. It's a persistent, daily effort, Sisyphean and heroic at the same time, for despite the artfulness of the work, the jingles, the heckling,the sweat, nothing much happens (compared to the profits made by the crusaders of globalization), the world just streams by, and at the end of the day you pack up your things and leave and in your absence the world keeps on going without you.
UntitledScenes From an Endless War, in an experimental documentary on militarism, globalization, and the ?war against terrorism?. Part meditation, part commentary, Scenes employs recontextualized commercial images, rewritten news crawls, and original footage and interviews to questions received wisdom and common sense assumptions about current American policies.