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Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
Los Angeles-based artists Julia Meltzer and David Thorne produce videos, photographs, installations, and published texts. From 1999 to 2003, their projects centered on state secrecy and the production of the past. Current works focus on the ways in which visions of the future are imagined, claimed and realized, specifically in relation to faith and global politics.
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A detailed description of each of Watkins' films, with extracts from reviews of the films, and information on their current availability.
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THE END OF SUBURBIA
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
A Crude Awakening
A Crude Awakening, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.
no.w.here
no.w.here.lab is a new centre for artists film production in London run by the artist filmmakers Karen Mirza and Brad Butler. Creating a cultural centre for the artists filmmaking community no.w.here.org provides public access to a unique set of film facilities at low cost. no.where also runs workshops to educate a new generation of artist filmmakers, convenes ccritical debates investigating experimental film's dialogue with contemporary culture, and programmes screenings and exhibitions. Through all of its activities no.w.here opens a space for the meeting of practice and theory expanding, extending and examining the place of film within contemporary artistic production.
exposed
EXPOSED is a film about Katherine, a 35 year old dancer and writer who suffers from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, a chronic condition caused by exposure to synthetic chemicals in consumer products, pesticides, building materials, exhaust, tabacco smoke, perfume, cleaning agents, food additives and others. While skeptics, particularly in the traditional medical field and the chemical industry, still question its legitimacy, for Katherine it is a debilitating everyday reality, forcing her to live outside of the norms of her society.
MIRANDA JULY
Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at an all-ages club.
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