What makes "Techno: Space and Flow in the Radical Frame" such an exceptional documentary is the manner in which the interviews are woven into a 50 minute long techno videoclip. The filmmaker has fully exploited all the existing digital video techniques in order to showcase the dizzying possibilities of the medium. Cut-ups and computer effects combine perfectly with the science-fiction images from Ken Ishii's Japanese manga video "Extra" - the best evidence that the techno movement has become an international culture that encompasses the entire globe.
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense.
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang.
A jaded Lower East Side couple have become bored of straight sex, in a bid to spice things up, they decide to imitate some rough sex scenes as seen on TV.
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect.
With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
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