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Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018)
A set of tools
It was Mark Fisher who pointed out that capitalist reality always needs a certain level of anti-capitalism to become tolerable. This film definitely gets into your head, it tackles some of your inner beliefs, yet, of course, it cannot fundamentally change anything. Critique is its own category, its own precious thing. It simply shows us what's wrong, even gives a couple of suggestions what we could do better, but in the end, political critique is nothing more than a friendly invitation. You accept it, or you don't. Either way, after watching Glossary of Broken Dreams you will have learned a lot. What you do with your new mental tools is up to you.
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004)
What I call a disaster movie
In 2004, John Waters narrated Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, a humorous documentary on the accidental lake created in the desert of Southern California. You can now find the film hosted on the YouTube channel of KQED, the public television outfit in San Francisco (where we're getting heavy, heavy rains today). Once known as the "California Riviera," the Salton Sea is now considered one of America's worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Plagues & Pleasures is an epic western tale of real estate ventures and failed boomtowns.