Michael Blum Movies

  • 1977
    Brothers

    Brothers

    Brothers

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    Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was...

    Brothers
  • 2016
    The Swap

    The Swap

    The Swap

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    The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same...

    The Swap
  • 2009
    Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory

    Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory

    Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory

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    Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and chocolate, at the Karl Marx Confectionary Factory...

    Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory
  • 2014
    Cavale au Canada

    Cavale au Canada

    Cavale au Canada

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    Montreal, 2013. Dina Mendes, artist and the daughter French criminal superstar Jacques Mesrine had from an affair in 1970, returns to Montreal and...

    Cavale au Canada
  • 2011
    Capri in Tangerang (Her Sneakers)

    Capri in Tangerang (Her Sneakers)

    Capri in Tangerang (Her Sneakers)

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    A sequel to My Sneakers - the 2001 video where Blum traveled his Nike sneakers back to Indonesia to figure out where they really came from. This...

    Capri in Tangerang (Her Sneakers)
  • 2006
    The Three Failures

    The Three Failures

    The Three Failures

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    A fairy tale about communism, social-democracy, and capitalism. (The sequel to Wandering Marxwards)

    The Three Failures
  • 2009
    Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town

    Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town

    Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town

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    A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...

    Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town
  • 1999
    Wandering Marxwards

    Wandering Marxwards

    Wandering Marxwards

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    A political and poetic wondering/wandering about the relevance and context of re-reading Marx 150 years after the publication of The Communist...

    Wandering Marxwards
  • 2004
    20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu

    20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu

    20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu

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    Melik Tutuncu, Chicago-based architect of Turkish origin, talks about his grand-mother, Safiye Behar, a Jewish marxist feminist who had a 30...

    20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu
  • 2012
    Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe

    Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe

    Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe

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    A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...

    Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe
  • 2010
    Oriental Dream

    Oriental Dream

    Oriental Dream

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    Orientalism breathlessly revisited, or a post-Ottoman tribute to silent slapstick comedy.

    Oriental Dream
  • 2012
    Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

    Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

    Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

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    A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...

    Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
  • 2012
    Faktories und Felder

    Faktories und Felder

    Faktories und Felder

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    A speculative biography of Joseph Otmar Hefter, a Jewish territorialist active in the 1930's and who disappeared from public attention soon after....

    Faktories und Felder
  • 2008
    Ciao Ghatoul

    Ciao Ghatoul

    Ciao Ghatoul

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    Tel Aviv, 2007. A man is so annoyed by a cat's on-going meows, that he decides to abduct the cat and deport it to the West Bank. He thus embarks on a...

    Ciao Ghatoul
  • 2005
    Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam

    Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam

    Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam

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    A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...

    Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam
  • 2005
    Old Boys and Toys

    Old Boys and Toys

    Old Boys and Toys

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    An ethnographic trip to American suburbia, recorded in a single shot. Every year, in the days prior to the opening of the World Toy Show in a Chicago...

    Old Boys and Toys
  • 2004
    17 Aandbloem Street

    17 Aandbloem Street

    17 Aandbloem Street

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    A neighbourhood investigation centered around a house in Cape Town. Current and former tenants, neighbours, a homeless man in a wheelchair, an...

    17 Aandbloem Street
  • 2003
    Dear Tom

    Dear Tom

    Dear Tom

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    A video-letter to Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and author of the unforgivable "Art for Dummies".

    Dear Tom
  • 1993
    Le tour du monde en 60 secondes

    Le tour du monde en 60 secondes

    Le tour du monde en 60 secondes

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    A survey of the world, its structures, its icons, its pathologies, in the form of a fast and obsessional typology.

    Le tour du monde en 60 secondes