The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design. (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 ten hidden behind the media curtain.) 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
United States of America
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This is Alex Jones second feature documentary, made in 2000, in where he takes a closer look on the 1993 incident with the Branch Davidians in Waco, and the aftermath of that incident.
"America is Waiting" is the music clip of a theme by Brian Eno and David Byrne. He uses different visual sources, especially B-movies and educational documentaries, to create a piece in the line of "A Movie" which highlights the potential of promotional pop film.
Amandla! is an impassioned chronicle of the role of music as a mean of protest and survival through more than 40 years of struggle against racial oppression. “The apartheid government took everything away from people, but it couldn't stop them from singing”, says director Lee Hirsch. In the songs there could even be found a rare ability of South Africa's people to find humour and creativity in impossible conditions, in abject poverty - and in battle.
Untitledwww.goarmy.com is a web site designed for the American army by Southern California University ICT. Technology and propaganda supported by a combination of corporations, university research departments and the army's futuristic projections (Future Combat Systems). In this section, through the filter of propaganda, we see future recruits and the process of immersion in army culture. A catalogue of psycho-emotional jabs to create the ideal soldier
UntitledIn November 1969 a small group of Native American students and urban Indians began the occupation of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. Eventually joined by thousands of Native Americans, they reclaimed 'Indian land' for the first time since the 1880s, forever changing the way Native Americans viewed themselves, their culture and their sovereign rights. For Native Americans all across the United States, the infamous Alcatraz is not an island... It is an inspiration.
Untitleda.k.a. Kathe is a portrait of a Mexican-American family from Tuckson, Arizona confronting the loss of a family member, Kathe. Kathe was fatally shot by a young man who through the course of this documentary is trailed and sentenced to only one year. The portrait of the life of a drug-addicted street prostitute, it also shows the repeating cycle of violence towards women.
Documents from the dark side of the empire. Government and corporate promotional material from military, pharmaceutical, digital and other mega industries...promoting them and their unspoken interests.