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Strange Culture (2007) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Strange Culture
other title: 奇異文化
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.
Seeing Is Believing (1992) [Movie] TMDB
Seeing Is Believing
Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic world that lacks sufficient mediation. Video retrieves lost memories for the child who, through her camera, seeks to find her father.
Virtual Love (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Virtual Love
A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him?
!Women Art Revolution (2010) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
!Women Art Revolution
director: 琳恩·赫什曼-李森 actor: 琳恩·赫什曼-李森
other title: 女性艺术革命 / 女艺革命
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
Conceiving Ada (1997) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Conceiving Ada
other title: 超录感情爱 / 孕育阿达
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?