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

[Chuck Kleinhans]

IF you want to stretch a bit, there's a group of films that show, document, etc. protests against weapons such as the anti-nuke movement in the 50s on, and films showing anti-war protests.

Jonas Mekas, his diary film of the 50s on (under some different titles as it evolved, as I remember--try Lost Lost Lost) includes a very poignant section of people protesting against air-raid drills in the 1950s.

Not quite so avant garde, but still "original" Peter Watkins: Culloden, a "you are there" docudrama of the turning point battle in the Highlands depicting the devastating power of British rifles against what amounted to stone age weapons of the Scots.  Perhaps especially appropriate for a museum of arms.  And powerfully anti-war.


There have been some powerful films about specific weapon systems:  Agent Orange and land mines, etc.  Usually in the aftermath and about the after effects.

Haroun Farocki's Inextinguishable Fires, on Napalm is pretty powerful, and experimental.



Chuck Kleinhans




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