The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who kidnap a hedge-fund manager. Peppered throughout the narrative is a spectacle of video clips from a wide variety of sources (PBS documentaries, YouTube explainer videos, TikToks, old and current News Magazine programs, etc.)
An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.
A series of desolate and absurd tales.
Stay Tune - A journey through time of Pakistan's tumultuous history seen across the TV screen through the eyes of three generations where times do change but people have the same misguided mindset of believing the media and blaming the other person instead of looking unto themselves for reflections and betterment.
Live Video of a performance by Sara Hook of her piece Caucasian Spirituals, the piece showcases the conflicts of being a young southern woman while wanting to free herself to the current cultural norms of the northern cities.
"To such heights of evil are men driven by religion." – Lucretius. Set during the militarism of the Gulf War, a capitalist and a diabolical priest entice a naïve young man into exploiting an innocent in this dark and biting satire of the American dream. Available Now on: Vimeo on Demand
Recorded at Hammersmith Apollo, London 9th – 10th March 2018.
"River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired 'hero of the right.' Impunity is not just the stuff of autocratic dictatorships in the third world. The American form of impunity is going to get us all killed."
Two political speech-writers struggle to spin the antics of an unlikely leader.
The FDP is gone - the financial crisis is still here. Fortress Europe is being built and the AFD would like to be in charge. The funded pension scheme is becoming a poverty trap for the average earner, so the only thing that helps is new enemy stereotypes to keep the democratically fooled at the bar where they are allowed to dance. Whoever controls the media rules the media democracy. The problems are not new, but they have evolved just as much as the program. Volker Pispers constantly updates his cabaret program and thus reflects the state of the republic: the ever new in the eternally same. Because while the media circus with its speech bubble jugglers makes us believe that something is constantly happening, virtually nothing is happening when it comes to the fundamental problems. You look in vain for respect in Pispers' programs. Blunt, crass and direct, he oscillates between bitterly angry and charmingly witty when he thinks the absurdities of the world through to the end.
A satirical look into the mind of the future first lady of the Philippines, Mrs. Sandro Marcos.
Soviet propaganda cartoon from WW2. Hitler, introduced by Charlie Chaplin, is ridiculed in three short skits.
(Saeed Saleh) in the play (Kaablon) looking for an answer to a question that the princess asked him as a condition if he wanted her to accept marriage with him, the question was: Where is the human mind? (Saeed Saleh) traveled a lot, and he suffered from alienation, and almost died several times before he knew the answer. The answer to the question for which he went out.
An oblivious young man refuses to take a life-saving antidote when the climate crisis results in a lethal gas emerging from the earth.
Got your holidays booked yet? Take a look at what Terminal Tours have to offer in this consciously coarse comic cartoon.
A young sailor descends from a local train. He goes to a nearby forest, which is full of strange men in medical uniforms behaving in an absurd and eccentric manner. The sailor falls under their influence and masochistically gives himself up to them only to be disemboweled by the werewolf orderlies. The sailor’s last unconscious image is a “white ship sailing towards the horizon”—a Soviet symbol for happiness and joy.
African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.