Only Two Words
Comments Off on Only Two WordsIn her film Only Two Words (2018) Masha Godovannaya uses historical footage from the 1970s and 1980s and her own...
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Author Archives for Modem
Bent Tiles
Comments Off on Bent TilesThe kernel of the plot of the audiovisual work Bent Tiles (2017) by Alžběta Bačíková is a biography of a...
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After the Magician
Comments Off on After the MagicianLea Petříková’s work After the Magician (2020) draws on the film Le Magicien (1947) by the French writer and surrealist...
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Commission
Comments Off on CommissionThe plot of the work Commission (2020) by Ieva Balode begins at an unknown moment in time in Georgia and...
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Alliances
Comments Off on AlliancesThe audiovisual work Alliances (2018) by Alex Martinis Roe explores the heritage of the women’s liberation movement and not obvious...
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Exile Exotic
Comments Off on Exile ExoticTwo decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, many of the former communist countries are taking architectural measures meant...
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Above the Weather
Comments Off on Above the WeatherIn Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials (2008), the members of the Naphtanese cult believe that fossil fuels represent...
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Rodopska Beyonce (Autoethnography II)
Comments Off on Rodopska Beyonce (Autoethnography II)In her 2008 anthem Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Beyoncé talks back to a former lover who failed...
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Wish Lament
Comments Off on Wish LamentIn her eight-part video series entitled Lament I-VIII (2013), Anca Munteanu Rimnic plays with the rituals of Romanian traditional funerals,...
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Miss Piranda
Comments Off on Miss PirandaThe protagonist of the film, Cristina Pucean, is a double champion of Miss Piranda, a famous Roma beauty and dance...
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Body Experience Knowledge
Comments Off on Body Experience KnowledgeIoana Cojocariu’s Body – Experience – Knowledge (2013) holds three learning experiences: Lesson #1: “Look to the side, but never...
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Reliable Relationships
Comments Off on Reliable RelationshipsThe title of Barbora Kleinhamplová’s work Reliable Relationships (2014) is inspired by an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) training advertisement. NLP is...
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Film Postale
Comments Off on Film PostaleFilm Postale (2013) draws three portraits shot in the memorial houses of important historical figures for the Art and History...
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The Cabbage Process
Comments Off on The Cabbage Process“Don’t forget you are an artist! Do not lose your heart, do not be afraid of anything! You will prevail....
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Non-Consensual Act
Comments Off on Non-Consensual ActIn 2012, Goshka Macuga became familiar with the Afghan Film Archive in Kabul. After she learned about their precarious and...
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Porn Video
Comments Off on Porn VideoPorn Video (2004) finds Anetta Mona Chișa and Lucia Tkáčová engaged in a simulated sexual act. Sleazy moans, hair pulling,...
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Forbidden Love
Comments Off on Forbidden LoveIn 1978, contemporary performance artist avant la lettre, Andy Kaufman, joins the reality show “The Dating Game” in which three...
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