Michael Blum Trailers
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Most Popular Michael Blum Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
The Swap Trailer (2016)
19 October 2016
The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006).
Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and chocolate, at the Karl Marx Confectionary Factory in Kiev, Ukraine.
The Three Failures Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
A fairy tale about communism, social-democracy, and capitalism. (The sequel to Wandering Marxwards)
Oriental Dream Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
Orientalism breathlessly revisited, or a post-Ottoman tribute to silent slapstick comedy.
Dear Tom Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
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".
Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces, despite the limitations of rational discourse.
Old Boys and Toys Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
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 suburb, toy collectors and dealers rent rooms at the local Holiday Inn and leave their doors open.
Capri in Tangerang (Her Sneakers) Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
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.
Le tour du monde en 60 secondes Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
A survey of the world, its structures, its icons, its pathologies, in the form of a fast and obsessional typology.
Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe Trailer (2012)
16 September 2012
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces, despite the limitations of rational discourse.
Wandering Marxwards Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
A political and poetic wondering/wandering about the relevance and context of re-reading Marx 150 yeo
17 Aandbloem Street Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
A neighbourhood investigation centered around a house in Cape Town. Current and former tenants, neighbours, a homeless man in a wheelchair, an architect, a former top-model and a flower seller are among these who provide stories about the house, its surroundings and the hyper-local power dynamics - 10 years after the fall of the apartheid regime.
Cavale au Canada Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
Montreal, 2013. Dina Mendes, artist and the daughter French criminal superstar Jacques Mesrine had from an affair in 1970, returns to Montreal and looks for her father's traces.
Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces, despite the limitations of rational discourse.
Ciao Ghatoul Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
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.
Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago Trailer (2012)
16 September 2012
A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces, despite the limitations of rational discourse.
Faktories und Felder Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
A speculative biography of Joseph Otmar Hefter, a Jewish territorialist active in the 1930's and who disappeared from public attention soon after.
Brothers Trailer (1977)
31 March 1977
Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
Melik Tutuncu, Chicago-based architect of Turkish origin, talks about his grand-mother, Safiye Behar, a Jewish marxist feminist who had a 30 year-long affair with Mustapha Kemal Atatürk and influenced many of the reforms he was implementing in the 1920's, which founded modern Turkey.
