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The Jupiter Menace (1982 documentary by Lee Auerbach and Peter Matulavich)
The Jupiter Menace is an incredible rare documentary (it was even difficult to find a proper cover). One could really speculate why – and it is really fun to enumerate the options. Some may say it’s either because it is a complete bogus story of end-of-the-world millenarian conservative Christian radical trash or maybe even because it’s an…
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The Films of Frank Gilbreth 1908-1924
It is impossible to asses here or gauge the impact of Fordist “efficiency experts” and early scientific management engineers Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr (1868-1924) and his wife Lillian Evelyn Moller on our lives, in their quest for increased output/minimizing downtime PLUS minimizing injuries and accidents to the workers. Their demonstration that rest-time(unemployment?) is actually improving…
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Ekümenopolis: The City Without Limits (2012)
I became aware of this documentary after reading an excelent overview of the Occupy Gezi uprising written by Jay Cassano at a critical turning point for Istanbul megacity and the Turkish protestors. This year, as part of a residency in Istanbul (together with C Cobilanschi, BMR and the Candidatura la Președinție) we lived for a…
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Do Communists Have Better Sex?
This is an incredibly well researched mockumentary about a paradox: why was there better sexual education, more public nudity in the decidedly drab Communist East Germany vs the capitalist West where sex industry was booming. Sex historians, cultural critics and lots of unseen sexual education footage, Marxist sexology, trade union erotica, gender politics, Freie Körper…
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The Future Is Not What It Used to Be (2002)
A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art. His project of collecting everything around him will perhaps be the most significant of all his works. Kurenniemi records his thoughts, observations, objects and images constantly, with manic precision, with the…
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TPB – AFK
This is a documentary about the largest and the most famous torrent website in the world – The Pirate Bay – and the story behind it. It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay co-founders, he faces $13 million in damage claims to Hollywood…
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My Car Is My Lover
A mecaphile is a man who loves his car so much, that he engages in sexual activity with it. This documentary is about two such men, Edward and Jordan, who met online and now are both attending a huge car convention (yeah, can’t wait to see their reaction…). Throughout the jorney they tell us their…
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CHICUSURI – a Romanian documentary by Corneliu Cîrdeiu
https://vimeo.com/31722320 CHICUSURI watch on Vimeo This is a short documentary after an original idea by Liviu Petrescul, directed by Corneliu Cîrdeiu. It is under CC licence on Vimeo and got to me via Bogdan Otaku via Dermot. Sincerely I cherish the moments when I get to blog about some local stuff, not that we have…