Michael Blum Movies
- 1977
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...
- 2016
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...
- 2009
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...
- 2014
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...
- 2011
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...
- 2006
The Three Failures
The Three Failures02006HD
A fairy tale about communism, social-democracy, and capitalism. (The sequel to Wandering Marxwards)
- 2009
Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town
Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town02009HD
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...
- 1999
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...
- 2004
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...
- 2012
Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe
Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe02012HD
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...
- 2010
Oriental Dream
Oriental Dream02010HD
Orientalism breathlessly revisited, or a post-Ottoman tribute to silent slapstick comedy.
- 2012
Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago02012HD
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...
- 2012
Faktories und Felder
Faktories und Felder02012HD
A speculative biography of Joseph Otmar Hefter, a Jewish territorialist active in the 1930's and who disappeared from public attention soon after....
- 2008
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...
- 2005
Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam
Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam02005HD
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces,...
- 2005
Old Boys and Toys
Old Boys and Toys02005HD
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...
- 2004
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...
- 2003
Dear Tom
Dear Tom02003HD
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".
- 1993
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.