[Frameworks] Weapons and the military in avant-garde cinema?

[Michele Smith]

What about Francis Alys's Guards?

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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:50 PM, "John McAndrew" <jj.mcandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello all,
> 
> For a little under a year my main source of income has come through working as a gallery warden in a historical museum specializing in arms and armour (it's a questionable place to work in admittedly, but anyway...). Recently the museum's cinema space has become freely available to staff members to use on evenings whenever it's available and given both the digital and potential film projection facilities available, and the cinema itself being housed in quite a unique location, I've been pondering over the idea of independently programming a selection of experimental/underground/artists' films and videos that ties together the "avant-garde" as we commonly know it with its original military terminology. Either way, it would make a refreshing change to the current programming decisions of showing Hollywood war and action films that everyone has seen a hundred times over...
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> Can anyone on FrameWorks offer any suggestions for moving image works - both new or old, landmark or obscure, abstract or representative - that may explore such vanguard themes? Or know of any existing curated screenings or written texts that have also explored this connection? I'm open to hearing any and all suggestions for works involving the military and armed forces, weapon technology (firearms, explosives, swords etc), armour, combat and self-defence, historical battles or wars (maybe even fictional ones too), appropriated war/training films, critiques of the armed forces, militias, laws involving the right to keep and bear arms, etc etc etc...
> 
> Many thanks for reading!
> 
> Best,
> John
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