Signals: Everyday Propaganda
Overview of films
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Propaganda Channels
Various Artists | None
The difference between state propaganda, advertising and popular culture can be difficult to distinguish. What is propaganda and how can we recognise -
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The Reagan Shorts
Pacho Velez | 10' | USA | World premiere
In three short films, put together from archive footage of Ronald Reagan, Pacho Velez takes a look at ‘propaganda’ malfunctions: moments during ceremo -
Réfutation de tous les jugements
Guy Debord | 22' | France | None
Guy Debord analyses public feedback to The Society of the Spectacle and states that the perception of the film is also determined by rules of… -
Roger and Me
Michael Moore | 91' | USA | None
In the mid-eighties, General Motors decided to shut down its plants in the city of Flint, leaving thousands of people unemployed. Son of a GM… -
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La société du spectacle
Guy Debord | 88' | France | None
The contemporary world as a realm of easily-consumed, meaningless images. A world without actual freedom, where even a personal way of thinking is det -
This Is My Land
Tamara Erde | 93' | France | None
Filmmaker Tamara Erde visits different schools in Israel and Palestine and examines how the history of the region is being rewritten there according t -
Three Love Songs
Adel Abidin | 9' | Finland | None
Three Iraqi songs, the lyrics written for Saddam Hussein, and performed here by Western singers as if they were love songs. An excruciating contrast. -
Today
Esfir Shub | 60' | Russia | None
As the Soviet Union builds its Communist society, America consolidates capitalism and alienates the classes from one another. Russia at war with the W -
War Book
Tom Harper | 93' | United Kingdom | International premiere
What would happen if Pakistanis exploded an atomic bomb in Mumbai? For a period of three days, a British crisis workers’ group discuss all possible…
