Film Categories: Capitalism + Economics

  • The Burning Desire in a Dollar Bill

    The Burning Desire in a Dollar Bill shows how the special interests of media conglomerates and their parent companies mould our latent desires at a young age, later leaving us confused as to whether we are lusting after the sexually charged imagery or the products being advertised. The film argues that the act of purchasing is the strongest aphrodisiac in a capitalist society, leaving open the possibility that a solution to toppling capitalism is to shift our sexual desires from consumerism to personal freedom from the state. The film was created during a residency at Signal Culture using a modified…

  • Pizza Roles

    This meta-porn captures our experience, as genderqueer mixed race people of color, living in Seattle during the age of diversity incorporated. Opportunities to explore meaningful differences in experience are cast aside in favor of glossy, diverse, marketing photographs as the ultimate proof of corporate status.

  • Golden Boat

    Inside a derelict warehouse in the middle of a salt pan, people from around the world are waiting to be taken to a mysterious place that promises a better life. Some find the wait intolerable, desperate to leave and to explore the imagined possibilities on the other side. For others, the house offers a momentary respite from a troubled past and the difficult migrant life that awaits them in the future.

  • 8401

    8401 is a moving-image and light landscape painting depicting a multi-layered, fragmented view of Villa Grimaldi in Santiago, Chile. Now a memorial park, Villa Grimaldi was a clandestine detention, torture and extermination centre during the Pinochet regime (1973-90). The image is built of hundreds of images extracted from five years of Google Street Views of the address and site, Avenida José Arrieta 8401.The sound is composed of fifteen audio loops of ambient sound and voice, deconstructed from a field recording gathered during a 2016 tour of the facility. A multitude of shifting perspectives give the impression both of deprioritizing time…

  • Chez Mademoiselle Fifi

    Welcome to Chez Mademoiselle Fifi where you will find the most blood-soaked erotic spectacles in town. Never come alone!

  • Frissons

    Hurry hurry step this way and see with your own eyes the pillaging of the public domain Prelinger archives! See the sampling and remixing of archival footage from the heyday of Coney Island and the horror genre, creating a cinematic fun house mirror of carnival themes around the dreadful and uncanny presence of marvelous freaks that you can see for the price of a small thin dime! If you hurry, hurry, hurry!

  • Main Attraction

    Mario the Magician and his community of ‘freak’ friends discover they are threatened by eviction from the abandoned building they are squatting by a real estate speculator and condo developer.

  • Uncanny

    A young girl reads a horror comic about a businessman who abducts homeless women with uncanny results.

  • Loathing

    The film depicts a society controlled by an autonomous system. While plebs are unhappy with their Designer overlords, a smart assistant takes part in a Luddite conspiracy against them. The conspiracy fails. The assistant recounts the events of the revolution in a court of law

  • Catalyst

    Being natural born pattern seekers, we are forever looking for this or that clue to help explain what otherwise might appear unfathomable. Fundamentally Catalyst represents a type of diary without dates, of memories reconstructed to formulate my story. A story that takes place in time and space, shaped by the earth and sky Merging super 8 mm footage that I filmed many years ago with some of my more recent DSLR/HDV tape footage, Catalyst investigates how each medium shaped my story as well as the gaps in time when each sequence was filmed. Filmed on location by Kent Tate: Toronto,…