Foreign Names at Fmovies. Foreign Names focuses on the worker displacement in a compilation of video clips from Aroma, a coffee shop chain. Ben-Ner’s video shows counter staff at the coffee shops yelling nonsensical English “names,” fabricated and given to them by the artist. The texts edited together become a lament of the waiters’ disappearance and the state of workers today.
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the franklinia flower, now extinct in the wild, appears here as a printed image (a drawing from 1782) pinned against a kitchen wall. hand and figure...
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A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time...
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A music festival symbolizing peace, freedom, and eternal love transforms into a horrifying nightmare of terror. Survivors, marked by death and...
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A field full of sheep is observed through the camera, preserving that moment in time forever.
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The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palestinian territory at the village of Bil'in. The...
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Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot—the kind you keep playing back in your head but not quite ever remembering right, until it...
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A documentary about a person who cleans his room with a vacuum cleaner, filled with disasters and mishaps.
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Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...
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By reversing the image of the burning and destruction of Chinese-Indonesian homes and cultures in the May 1998 tragedy, the filmmaker documents a...
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A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful...
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Travel films have an established format with their own conventions, history and baggage. It is a medium that has all too often sought to control,...