Michael Blum Movies

  • 2009
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    Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory

    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 in Kiev, Ukraine. Since access to the factory was denied, the project had to be re-considered, re-invented or re-enacted. Mostly made of archival...

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  • 1977
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    Brothers

    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 one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.

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  • 2016
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    The Swap

    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 character as in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the financial...

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  • 2010
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    Oriental Dream

    Oriental Dream

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    Orientalism breathlessly revisited, or a post-Ottoman tribute to silent slapstick comedy.

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  • 2005
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    Old Boys and Toys

    Old Boys and Toys

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    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...

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  • 2009
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    Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town

    Psychics I : Melanie Perfect / 17 Aandbloem Street, Cape Town

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    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. The video is not edited, respecting the actual duration of the performance.

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  • 1999
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    Wandering Marxwards

    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 Manifesto

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  • 2008
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    Ciao Ghatoul

    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 long and complicated journey with the sole purpose of ridding himself of this unpleasant neighbour.

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  • 2012
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    Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe

    Psychics III : Frans Dupont / Rooseum, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmoe

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    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. The video is not edited, respecting the actual duration of the performance. In this particular case, Frans...

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  • 2004
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    20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu

    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 year-long affair with Mustapha Kemal Atatürk and influenced many of the reforms he was implementing in the 1920's, which founded modern Turkey.

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  • 2012
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    Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

    Psychics II : Janet Jelet / 1371 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

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    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. The video is not edited, respecting the actual duration of the performance.

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  • 1993
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    Le tour du monde en 60 secondes

    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.

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  • 2004
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    17 Aandbloem Street

    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 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 -...

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  • 2005
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    Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam

    Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam

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    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. The video is not edited, respecting the actual duration of the performance. In this particular case, the...

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  • 2006
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    The Three Failures

    The Three Failures

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    A fairy tale about communism, social-democracy, and capitalism. (The sequel to Wandering Marxwards)

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  • 2011
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    Capri in Tangerang (Her Sneakers)

    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 time, it's the artist's daughter's shoes that prompt him to return to Jakarta. While echoing My Sneakers and its investigative drive, Capri unravels as a...

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  • 2003
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    Dear Tom

    Dear Tom

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    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".

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  • 2012
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    Faktories und Felder

    Faktories und Felder

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    A speculative biography of Joseph Otmar Hefter, a Jewish territorialist active in the 1930's and who disappeared from public attention soon after. What begins as an investigation of Hefter's elusive life between the eastern marches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, New York, and Mexico, soons turns...

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  • 2014
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    Cavale au Canada

    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 looks for her father's traces. She embarks on this search with both personal quest and artistic project in mind. The film shifts from fiction...

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