Capitalism Tag Archive

Live Action

A Late-Night Senior Prank Curdles Into a Tense Class Standoff in Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz’s ‘Trapped’

Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz pit a high school janitor against privileged graduating students in their high-stakes drama that proves money can't buy class.

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Live Action, Premiere

Tim Nathan Skewers Late-Stage Capitalist Britain in Absurdist Comedy ‘Thoughts & Prayers’

Combining precise cinematography with dry humour, Tim Nathan reveals how he grounded absurdity in truth in his comic take on contemporary Britain.

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Animation, Music Video

James Siewert Spins up a Stop Motion Tale of Capitalism’s Inevitable Downfall for Just Desserts’ ‘Tender’

James Siewert's music video whisks us from the birth of modern society, to it's capitalist systems now creaking at the seems, and it's inevitable demise.

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Animation, Premiere

Inside Mine! – How Louis Morton’s Short Film Explores Capitalism and its Environmental Impacts

Louis Morton on befriending rats underground, adapting a great-grandpa's tale and the hand-drawn process of unearthing a climate parable in his SXSW animation.

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Live Action

Choreographing Community Collapse: Athina Rachel Tsangari on the Ritualistic Filmmaking of ‘Harvest’

Athina Rachel Tsangari discusses the inimitable nature of 16mm & its essentiality in crafting her hallucinatory vision of a way of life crushed by capitalism.

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Documentary, Premiere

William Williamson Encapsulates the Backbreaking Labour of Vietnam’s Wet Market in ‘All for You’

William Williamson explains how he captured the sheer scale and arduous working conditions of Vietnam's wet market in his succinct and decisive doc.

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