Surreal Operations
Combined programme
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IFFR 2004
Not all films about America and its wars and secret operations are clearly agit prop. Some, and not the least creative of film makers, choose a diversion, a reversal or apparently roundabout ways.
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Seven Days
A new American president gets a new dog. The country is at war, but the president is only interested in training his Irish setter. -
Re: The_Operation
A confusing and humorous portrait, in a mixture of styles, of those who turn warfare into higher politics. -
It’s Not My Memory of It
Archive material reveals the operation of the secret services. A documentary thriller. -
Operation Double Trouble
Simple intervention makes army propaganda film stutter. Showing every scene twice instead of once destroys the heroism in one fell swoop. -
A Brief History of Surrealism
The atmosphere in New York in times of war, seen through the eyes of the long-dead surrealist Andre Breton. About the war language of Bush…