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Less a theme than a state of constant watchfulness, the subject of war snakes through this year’s festival. Ed Halter speaks about the US military’s incursions into culture, and we follow up on last year’s Harun Farocki spotlight with his latest, War At A Distance. Two films make points about resistance: Barbara Hammer’s Resisting Paradise discovers the WWII Resistance in Matisse’s back yard, and Mohamed Soueid’s Nightfall reflects on his time in Fatah during the Lebanese Civil War.

War Games: Digital Gaming and the US Military is a multi-media presentation by Village Voice critic Ed Halter that looks at the relationships between the video game industry and the US military.

War at a Distance is a program of works by Harun Farocki, Kwang-Ju Son and Dara Greenwald that brings us up to the minute on the state of technological warfare, military paranoia and the effects they have on those caught in the middle.

In Resisting Paradise, Barbara Hammer’s investigates two very different kinds of lives lived during WWII: those of the painter Matisse and of the anti-fascist Resistance fighters.

Nightfall is the scathing, strange and surprisingly funny video by director Mohamed Soueid which draws on his experience as a member of “The Student Squad” Fatah during the Lebanese Civil War.