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A video essay by Anni Puolakka and Alexander Iezzi, connecting monsterhood, post-fossil transgression and forms of refusal in the lives and practices of artists.

In 1971, the Algerian government nationalized hydrocarbons. The consequences of this decision on the community of Algerians in France are numerous. The Galti family is prey to these economic problems. The father, Khaled, former member of the F.L.N. in France, does not escape the sentence. Sharazade, his wife and comrade in combat, finds herself torn between her role as wife, mother and nostalgia for a country and a bygone past. As for his son Karim, a victim of socio-cultural division, all he has left is refusal.

The story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-43), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system.

Abstract animated short film created under the impression of the poem by the futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov "Refusal".

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

The short animated film brings to life a real story of the hidden family of Eva Benešová (born 1940) during the 2nd WW in former Czechoslovakia.

A two-channel experimental film explores interwoven narratives of struggle against Portuguese colonialism, uncovering the intercontinental network of relations that developed between historical figures in Goa, Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau.

In the living room, RAMA (33), is painting the bottom of the wall which is full of TARA (6) crayon scribbles which resemble the shape of a ship with simple lines. JINGGA (30) is ironing her school uniform and feeding Tara who is busy drawing a boat in a drawing book. Rama looked tired, he suggested that JIngga stop painting so that Tara wouldn't get involved in scribbling. Hearing that, Jingga promised to take care of Tara so she wouldn't do it again. Rama said he was tired when he came home from work and found the house dirty. If JIngga can't get Tara to comply, then JIngga won't be allowed to paint anymore.

Frieda Liappa in this short film casts an alternative gaze on the notion of historicity. Loukia is a teenager currently staying at her cousin’s house in Athens. Unlike her cousin she is timid and quite stressed for the school exam. She studies history. Between the lines of her book the historical events sprung up in a multidimensional way. Liappa transverses the dimensions of the real the imaginary and the symbolic. She invites the viewer to consider the construction of the filmic as well as the historical text. She succeeds in making a film with an open end and to leave room for our own contingent constructions.

'No Refusal' is based on a story of a taxi driver Manoj whose experiences and struggles are shared by thousands of immigrant Bihari workers who come to larger cities to try and earn a living. One day Manoj becomes involved in an accident that is followed by a series of events that change his life forever

Craig's journey continues as he teams up with Fatty to kick ass and take names.

In the surreal world of First Refusal, we follow the emotional journey of a young girl who grapples with grief, forced to confront the pain of loss head-on. Burdened by the recent passing of her beloved brother, she is haunted by the memories of their shared past, all within a unique sanctuary of her own design– a memory palace where she has trapped her brother’s spirit. Within this ethereal realm, the boundaries of reality blur as she relives cherished moments they once shared.

An experimental film about the the impressionistic dread of memory and paranoia, comprised of 16mm and standard definition video.

Hamid is shared between his wife Souad, his mistress Leïla, and his mother-in-law Hajja. Zhor, the servant is the guardians mistress. Brahim is Hamids scapegoat, until the day when he catches him red-handed. Hamid is blackmailed...

Fakhita discovered that her husband's daughter has a child from his mistress. He gets angry at him and forces him to divorce her only child, but the latter strongly rejects her attachment to her and her weakness. Which makes the need to pour out her anger by preventing him from using the work car, preventing the servants from carrying out any of his orders, and determining his powers in the company, which will make him plan to marry his mother in order to return to his previous position.

The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.

On a street corner in the city, a heap of dumped garbage surrounds two garbage containers. An old mattress begins to speak sadly: "They say I'm dirty.." Other pieces of garbage join in, sharing the reasons why they have been discarded. Then, a newspaper is picked up by the wind and seems to dance in the spotlight of a streetlamp. Inspired, the waste begins to see themselves positively. Their enthusiasm evolves into a spectacle of song and dance.

Jean-Luc Godard addresses two filmic letters to young Israeli soldiers who were sentenced after refusing to intervene in the occupied territories.

In the 80s, the world was happily typing away on their Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. However, not everybody had access to these wonders of technology. In Yugoslavia, people weren't allowed and couldn't afford to have a computer in their home, so they had to improvise. This campaign is a story about the origins of the Balkans computer scene and Yugoslavia's very own personal computer.

The possibility of (re)constructing human history now no longer takes place in archives alone; it has instead moved into the realm of rubbish. But what if, under modern concepts of an efficient recycling system, there is no more waste?

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

Total Refusal meets with filmmaker and artist Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis in Los Santos, the digital city landscape of video game GTA V, to go on an art tour through the game world and discuss the concept of hyperrealism in capitalist media.

A group of musicians protect an elephant that a gang is chasing to sell to a circus.

X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.