Based on the wartime activities of a commando team that, even before the first Gulf War, slaughtered a bunch of Bedouins and withdrew after eight hours without a single casualty. The American self-image of invincibility in a collage of Hollywood footage, war propaganda and battlefield reports, mixed with the eyewitness accounts of a soldier on the spot.
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lot 63, grave c
A film about Meredith Hunter, who was murdered by Hell’s Angels during the Stones concert on the Altamont racetrack.
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Cosmetic Emergency
The Western ideal of beauty portrayed in a collage of lyrical, original animations painted on glass, found footage and documentary fragments.
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Boll Weevil Days
Experimental disaster film with strange, nostalgic music. Nominated for the Tiger Awards for Short Film.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
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