Foreign Names
Foreign Names
| 01 January 2012 (USA)
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Foreign Names focuses on the worker displacement in a compilation of video clips from Aroma, a coffee shop chain. Ben-Ner’s video shows counter staff at the coffee shops yelling nonsensical English “names,” fabricated and given to them by the artist. The texts edited together become a lament of the waiters’ disappearance and the state of workers today.

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Stevecorp

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Dorathen

Better Late Then Never

ChanFamous

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

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Marva

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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