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.)
"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."
When a naive soda influencer/reviewer uncovers a twisted conspiracy about the Coca-Cola Corporation, he travels to Atlanta on January 6th to shine a light on the darkness. He is joined by his friend/documentarian and a new cameraman hired off of Craigslist to film the journey. But along the way, things go awry. What started as a righteous political cause turns into a nightmare of deceit; dismay; and, ultimately, a horrific act of violence.
An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.
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.
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.
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.
A promotional short for the feature film "Roach Motel". The short film "Modern Living and You!" satirizes "Red Scare" era instructional shorts, while the time period itself is up in the air and left ambiguous. The short follows "Your Neighbor Margie" at the hands of a ruthless, demanding, and godlike narrator, as he puts her on display and on the spot, asking her questions, that he himself may not even know the answers to.
African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.
Recorded at Hammersmith Apollo, London 9th – 10th March 2018.
Two low-level government workers follow orders from their absurd superiors.
Ahead of the U.S. Presidential Elections, Angela Scanlon travels across America to meet some of Donald Trump's most unlikely supporters - including a second-generation Mexican American who wants Trump to build that wall.
Jonathan Pie is the frustrated news reporter that satirises the world of politics and the media. Known for venting his spleen in unguarded “off-camera” rants, Pie’s online videos have been viewed by millions worldwide.
A sarcastic look at the content provided by television programs
Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical backdrop. The film aptly deconstructs the absurdities of contemporary American life, particularly the thick fog of patriotism engulfing the country at the time.
'Zweite Tür Rechts' is a satirical political comedy about the Austrian government's Department of Direct Democracy.