The duration of this early black-and-white performance work follows Ramos eating the entirety of a watermelon, slice by slice. The artist sits outdoors at a small dining table with a white table cloth, positioned directly in front of the camera as he makes his way through the fruit and a full bottle of wine. In the background, a radio surfs through Christian programming celebrating Easter Sunday. Ramos prods at and riffs on the racist, anti-Black tropes around watermelon, magnifying the gluttony of his consumption against the fervor of Easter day radio messaging.
A prohibition-themed gangster thriller, set in the 1930s in the United States. Following a failed heist, Sam's gang takes refuge in a small isolated town where another gang has already settled, together with a mysterious priest.
A frustrated Frankfurt innkeeper is recruited as an agent for the "Gehlen Organization" and after a short training period, during which he is familiarized with sophisticated espionage methods, he takes his first steps as a spy.
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative.
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