War against terror? There is nothing really new under the sun. Countries and resistance movements have been using violence for ages. But what is the difference between freedom fighters and troublemakers? And at what point do safety measures turn into repression?

Ubermax
JIM FINN (USA 2004, VIDEO, 1:00 MIN)
A singalong tour the Tamms supermax prison in Southern lllinois. “Hitler, he only had one ball. Goering had two but very small”.

All Right
ALEESA COHENE (CANADA 2003, VIDEO, 7:00 MIN)
Using diverse found footage sources including immigration officer training videos, emotive gestures from horror films and sound clips from Canadian news broadcasts, Cohene takes the viewer on a provocative journey.

Security Fugue
DAVID PHILLIPS & PAUL ROWLEY (USA 2003, VIDEO, 4:00 MIN)
Contrasting the promise of rescue with threats of captivity and injury, Security Fugue addresses the current and ubiquitous issue of security.

lt’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents
JULIA MELTZER EN DAVID THORNE (USA 2003, VIDEO, 25:00 MIN)
In the first part of this triptich a former CIA source recounts his disap­pearance through shredded classified documents that were painstakingly reassembled by radical fundamentalist students in lran in 1979. The second part shows a burial at sea of six Soviet sailors, in a ceremony which collapses Cold War antagonisms in a moment of death and honor. In the final part, images of a U.S. missile strike in Yemen in 2002 are the source of a concluding reflection on the role of documents in the constitution of the dynamic of knowing and not knowing.

Black September
CHRISTOPH DRAEGER (SWITZERLAND 2002, VIDEO, 14:30 MIN)
The hostage action by Palestinian ‘Black September’ terrorists during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich kept the world fettered to the television. In this video, Draeger paradoxically recreates the true grimness of the episode by re-staging this home theatre.

Detail
AVI MOGHRABI (ISRAEL 2002, VIDEO , 8:00 MIN)
Detail is a detail of the reality that we live in in lsrael and the Occupied Territories .

Chic Point
SHARIF WAKED (ISRAEL 2003, VIDEO, 7:15 MIN)
Fashion for lsraeli checkpoints. Chic Point is a video shot in a fictional location: The occupation catwalk.

Untitled (Rambo)
RA Dl MARTINO (ITALY 2003, VIDEO, 3:00 MIN)
In Ra di Martino’s work Rambo, the American hero is portrayed in a series of rescue attempts, in a 1920s silent, black-and-white style.

Martyr Allahya
JOHN E. GORAS (USA, VIDEO, 1:15 MIN)
In this decidedly topical piece, the skeletal hero is sent by the American Empire into an unspecified Arab country (lraq) to mop up the rebels. When the mission is accomplished, he has a revelation about the motives behind his handlers and turns on them viciously.

Future Shock
JOHN E. GORAS (USA 2003, VIDEO, 5:30 MIN)
This sci-fi themed episode finds Ghost Tank abducted by time-hopping extraterrestials. Once in their futuristic lab-facility he helps his fellow captive, a primitive ape-man escape. But things get hairy from thereon, once a homosapien couple and an eros-inducing alien get into the mix. This may be the most heartfelt episode of the Ghost Tank series to date.