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It’s Not My Memory of
It: Three Recollected Documents |
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Oh Me! |
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You were indeed being watched. Does it make you any less paranoid
to know that you were right all along? This program examines the
Cain and Abel of modern society: government’s jealous claim
to secrecy and its increasing claim to its citizens’ privacy.
Featuring a special musical appearance by US Attorney General John
Ashcroft. |
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Oh Me!
Jonathan Amitay | Canada | 7.5 min. | video | 2003 | World Premiere
Twenty years on, Amitay returns to his phobias and fears of old.
Nukie’s back and he’s still laughing. |
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Who Are They? (Quienes Son?)
Alex Stikich | Venezuela | 8 min. | video | 2002 | Canadian Premiere
Stikich travels the Cuban countryside, following signs that point
to the existence of extraterrestrials. He discovers a surreal landscape
where people tell tales of alien abduction and the radio broadcasts
warnings about cultural imperialism. The invasion is nigh. “Are
they aliens or capitalists?” |
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Secret
Tapes (Tajne tamy SB)
Piotr Morawski | Poland | 35 min. | video | 2002 | Canadian Premiere
In 2001, in the offices of the Polish Secret Police, a few boxes
of film were found. On these films were images made between 1966
and 1985 by the filmmakers of the Secret Police – the only
images that survived the hasty destruction of these records at the
fall of the Polish Communist state. Secret Tapes essays a dual project:
it offers brief glimpses into the history of the opposition movement
and its methods, from mass demonstrations to hunger strikes and
a horrific self-immolation. Using interviews with those who worked
for the police, it also creates a portrait of the counter-methods
used by agents of the state to gather information. A creepy and
fascinating tape. |
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Security Anthem
Kent Lambert | USA | 3.5 min. | video | 2003
A crazed bit of found poetry, editing together a litany of talking
heads. The banality of domesticity becomes more and more sinister.
Homeland Security rates this one orange. |
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It’s
Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents
Julia Meltzer & David Thorne | | USA | 25 min. | video | 2003
| Canadian Premiere
Interviews with US information officials on government classification
procedures provide the counterpoint to three chapters on secrecy.
Meltzer and Thorne’s research turns up stunning historical
documents, including “Documents from the U.S. Espionage Den,”
a publication by Iranian revolutionaries of shredded documents seized
from the US Embassy in Tehran, and a moving burial at sea of Soviet
sailors by their US counterparts that exposes the absurdity of Cold
War enmities. Coupled with a pixel-by-pixel look at a State Department-supplied
photograph of an American missile strike in Yemen, these form a
strong indictment of today’s climate of government secrecy.
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