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The Best Decision Ever Made

The Best Decision Ever Made is a confessional documentary, an affecting combination of short video sequences, still images and family photographs in faded color. The film focuses the house of Mr. Miner's dead grandparents, full of furnitures and memories.

2@

In 2@, Cokes continues his investigation of pop culture, focusing on the discourse surrounding the music industry. Dedicated to Dan Graham, whose pioneering video Rock My Religion took rock-and-roll as its subject, 2@ focuses on the development of rock music.

What I’m, Looking For

What I’m Looking For documents the adventure, strange intimacies and connections formed at this intersection between virtual and actual public space. The video is rumination on the nature of photography; the persistence of vision; a short tale of desire and the act of looking.

A Place Called Lovely

"Nicky is seven. His parents are older and meaner." A Place Called Lovely references the types of violence individuals find in life, from actual beatings, accidents and murders, to the more insidious violence of lies, social expectations, and betrayed faith.

Meta Mayan II

Shot in the Guatemalan Highlands, Meta Mayan II is a keenly observed, poetic video essay on the indigenous culture of the Mayans. Velez's vision is intensely personal; avoiding overt editorializing or ethnographic analysis; he depicts the landscapes, gestures, textures and rhythms of their culture in powerful, evocative images.

Nanook of the North

Nanook and his family arrive at a trading station after several days trekking. They barter furs for goods while Nanook listens to music from a gramophone. The traders explain that the sounds come from a record, but Nanook, who is familiar with the songs of whales tries to eat it. The documentary describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group of Eskimo people barely touched by industrial technology. It was praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.

Atomic Ed & the Black Hole

As the self-appointed curator of an unofficial museum of the nuclear age called "The Black Hole", a former Los Alamos National Laboratory machinist-- turned atomic junk collector-- known as Atomic Ed reveals a history of government waste that was literally thrown in a trash heap.

Diana’s Hair Ego

Recognizing the extreme inadequacy of information on AIDS prevention, cosmetologist Diana, with her partner Dr. Bambi Sumpter, took on the task of educating the black community in Columbia, South Carolina. This video documents the growth of the South Carolina AIDS Education Network.

Sherman’s March

The director setting out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War is continually sidetracked with personal issues.

Media Burn

Examining the impact of mass media in American culture, Media Burn exemplifies Ant Farm's fascination with the automobile and television as cultural artifacts, and their approach to social critique through spectacle and humor.