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Anthem is a post-industrial lamentation, structured on the single piercing scream of a young girl as she stands in the vast chamber of Union Station in Los Angeles. Viola relates this structure to the form and function of religious chants, particularly Gregorian chants (using a harmonic scale in a resonant hall) and Tantric Buddhist chants (ritual exorcism and conversation with demons). The original scream is extended in time and shifted in frequency to produce a scale of harmonic notes that comprises the soundtrack, to which Viola juxtaposes images of materialism -- industry and the worship of the body, giant oil pumps and the beating human heart, cars streaming along a freeway and blood flowing through veins, modern surgical technology and tree branches in an ancient forest. The anguished scream cuts through the corporeality of the body and contemporary culture as a living organism. For Viola, the piece is a ritual evocation of "our deepest primal fears, darkness, and the separation of body and spirit."

This four-volume set features a collection of documentary films, cartoons and early silent-era films that provide examples of some of the extreme stereotypes of the Arab world that were common in western media and entertainment during the first half of the twentieth century. Part 1:Tom & Jerry .gypped in Egypt, 44'. Part 2: Hal Roach: Grief In Baghdad, 47'. Part 3: George Melies: Palace of the Arabian Nights, 58'. Part 4: Outposts of the Foreign Legion, 51'

This four-volume set features a collection of documentary films, cartoons and early silent-era films that provide examples of some of the extreme stereotypes of the Arab world that were common in western media and entertainment during the first half of the twentieth century. Part 1:Tom & Jerry .gypped in Egypt, 44'. Part 2: Hal Roach: Grief In Baghdad, 47'. Part 3: George Melies: Palace of the Arabian Nights, 58' . Part 4: Outposts of the Foreign Legion, 51'

This four-volume set features a collection of documentary films, cartoons and early silent-era films that provide examples of some of the extreme stereotypes of the Arab world that were common in western media and entertainment during the first half of the twentieth century. Part 1:Tom & Jerry .gypped in Egypt, 44'. Part 2: Hal Roach: Grief In Baghdad, 47'. Part 3: George Melies: Palace of the Arabian Nights, 58'. Part 4: Outposts of the Foreign Legion, 51'

This four-volume set features a collection of documentary films, cartoons and early silent-era films that provide examples of some of the extreme stereotypes of the Arab world that were common in western media and entertainment during the first half of the twentieth century. Part 1:Tom & Jerry .gypped in Egypt, 44'. Part 2: Hal Roach: Grief In Baghdad, 47'. Part 3: George Melies: Palace of the Arabian Nights, 58'. Part 4: Outposts of the Foreign Legion, 51'.