Norman McLaren's anti war film 'Neighbours':
 http://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins/

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> On 29 Jan 2014, at 7:49 am, John McAndrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 
> 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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