In the spirit of the upcoming elections, this program of shorts reminds about the mishappenings of the last four years under the Bush Administration as well as draws parallels to the similar situations faced by different people around the world. Among the artists featured are: Reza Parsa, Bryan Boyce, The Speculative Archive (a.k.a. Julia Meltzer & David Thorne), Jino Choi and others.

Meeting Evil 9min, 2002
Director: Reza Parsa

A man is sitting on the back seat of a car. He has twelve minutes left to live ? and speaks his words of valediction into the camera. A disturbing and highly controversial film which has been screened at Cannes. “Perhaps the most astonishing moments ever created in a Swedish film”, according to Ingmar Bergman.

Director Reza Parsa, born in 1968, comes from Tehran and has been living in Sweden since 1980. At the age of 22 he enrolled at the Danish Film School where he trained as a director. He has made ten short films so far. His feature film debut “Before the Storm” has won national and international awards. Filmography (Selection): 1995: Never; 1997: Tigerheart; 1998: The 8th Song; 2000: Before the Storm; 2002: Meeting Evil

It's not my memory of it - three recollected documents 25min, video, 2003
Director: The Speculative Archive (a.k.a. Julia Meltzer & David Thorne)

Interviews with US information officials on government classification procedures provide the counterpoint to three chapters on secrecy. Meltzer and Thorne’s research turns up stunning historical documents, including “Documents from the U.S. Espionage Den,” a publication by Iranian revolutionaries of shredded documents seized from the US Embassy in Tehran, and a moving burial at sea of Soviet sailors by their US counterparts that exposes the absurdity of Cold War enmities. Coupled with a pixel by-pixel look at a State Department-supplied photograph of an American missile strike in Yemen, these form a strong indictment of today’s climate of government secrecy.

Elections Collectibles video, 4min, 2000
Director: Bryan Boyce

In this faux-recreation of a home-shopping network, Al Gore and George W. Bush offer you a 'super-premium' collectible lamp commemorating the 2000 presidential election.
“Ever wonder if politicians aren't just cheap evangelists pimping packaged politics to a bleary-eyed electorate too tired, transfixed or dumb to change the channel? Apparently you're not alone. In the hilarious short Election Collectibles, San Francisco's Bryan Boyce uses his patented "stunt mouth" technique to superimpose infomercial blowholes on Bush and Gore, candidates as "factory-sealed" as the products they endorse.”

San Francisco native Bryan Boyce is a film and video artist whose work has been shown at venues around the world, including the Rotterdam Internatonal Film Festival, NY Expo of Short Film and Video, NY Underground, Chicago Underground, Cinematexas, RESFest and the Pacific Film Archive.

Bushwhacked2 Video, 3 min, 2003
Director: Warped Productions

A scary remix of George W Bush's State of the Union Address.