Microcinema DVDs - Manifest Destiny

In a speech in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 7, 1966, Robert F. Kennedy said, "There is a Chinese curse which says, "May you live in interesting times."

Even though there is no such saying "in Chinese" it is applies all too well to the first decade of the 21st century.

Since 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Independent Exposure has seen an increasing stream of moving image art submissions that interpret our times. Artists have the gift of focusing on a subject by rendering it abstract - paradoxically stripping away the layers of our consciousness and laying bare a reality for all to plainly see.

Manifest Destiny highlights ten works from international directors that acutely interpret our times. The works range from the humorous, hysterical, ranting, serious, personal to disturbing - yet uniformly interesting.

Catalog Number: MC-250	Type: Shorts Compilation	Genre: Political / Social
Copyright: 2004	Length: 60 minutes	Format: DVD Region: All regions
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC:
Label: Blackchair Collection

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Films In Compilation

Current directed by Brian Doyle USA, Experimental, 2001, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 In the vacated downtown of a metropolis a storm approaches and envelops – except this is no ordinary meteorological phenomenon. A digital wind blows the debris from an overflow of information – the ...
Bush for Peace directed by Jen Simmons USA, Political / Social, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00 It’s Bush as you’ve never heard him before in a re-mix of U.S. foreign policy, created from the Commander-in-Chief’s “Moment of Truth” speech delivered in March 2003. ...
Arrogance directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:30 A finger touches an onscreen map and a city explodes. Samples of the arrogance implied in US media coverage of the Iraq invasion, and the arrogance implied by the assumptions of Bush, Cheney and ...
Right Road Lost directed by Victoria Gamburg USA, Documentary, 2001, 16mm, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:11:50 All Phil Rios wanted to be was an artist. His life, however, took another direction. The story of Phil Rios, a Vietnam and Gulf War veteran, and his attempt to cope with the memory of an unspeakable ...
General, The directed by Sietske Tjallingii Netherlands, Comedy / Satire, 2004, 35 mm, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:03:00 A biting satire on patriotism and military power in post-September 11 America. With the subversive wit of Chaplin's The Great Dictator, director Sietske Tjallingii cuts the Superpower down to ...
Armor of God directed by Jim Haverkamp USA, Documentary, 2001, 16mm, other, Optical Stereo, 00:12:45 Can ear-splitting improvisational noise be considered "Christian music"? North Carolina musician Scotty Irving certainly thinks so. He builds instruments out of hockey masks and crutches, bangs the ...
What to Believe? directed by Mario Escobar USA, Experimental, 2002, DV/16mm, other, Optical Stereo, 00:03:30 “What To Believe” is a short film that combines 16mm found footage, Digital Video, and assorted sound samples in a fast-paced piece that challenges the viewer’s ideas about mass media and everyday ...
Gulf directed by Matthew Radune USA, Experimental, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:47 A car, a generator, and a projector: a casual drive through Houston and a day at the beach manifest into Houston’s ...
Vision Test directed by Wes Kim USA, Documentary, 2002, DV, Color, 00:06:00 What begins as a routing eye exam turns into a troubling dramatization of attitudes towards minorities in the United ...
Free Speech Zone directed by Kasumi USA, Experimental, 2004, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:18:02 A fusion of multi-layered polyphonic sampling, heavy, relentless beats, and scorching satire, The Free Speech Zone*, a psychedelic Dada/techno opera, is a scathing condemnation of the American ...