Movie: Foreign Names

  • HomePage

    Foreign Names

  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    2012-01-01

  • Average

    0

  • Rating:

    0.0 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    Englishעִבְרִית
  • Keywords

Similar Movies

The Psychedelic Experience
0%

The Psychedelic Experience(en)

1965-01-23

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.

Alternate Earth
0%

Alternate Earth(de)

2025-04-05

A scientific expedition travels to an alternative Earth in hope of finding a new home for humanity, which has destroyed its own planet. But is it even possible to escape old patterns?

Conversation with Two Lovers
0%

Conversation with Two Lovers(en)

2025-03-07

Shot in two places marrying with each other by a single and fractured bridge between Condrieu and les Roches-de-Condrieu, this film is the continuation of exploring ephemeral movement through the use of editing, camera movements and color sampling.

Becoming Air
0%

Becoming Air(de)

2025-04-04

Breathe deeply: in 3 years, your molecules will circle Earth, as today’s oxygen came from nature.

to boyhood, i never knew him
0%

to boyhood, i never knew him(en)

2022-12-13

Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.

Nocturnal
0%

Nocturnal(en)

2022-06-09

A one minute short film showcasing the sights, sounds, and people that characterizes Singapore's nightlife.

We Will Dance Again
81%

We Will Dance Again(en)

2024-08-23

A music festival symbolizing peace, freedom, and eternal love transforms into a horrifying nightmare of terror. Survivors, marked by death and trauma, reconstruct the event through their perspectives, embodying the lost innocence and beauty of youth, forever scarred by the tragic events that unfolded. This is a horrifying glimpse through the eyes of the individuals who endured the brutal October 7th onslaught at the Nova Music Festival.

Reflections of a society
0%

Reflections of a society(es)

2021-03-14

In this 21st century, under the cloak of capitalism, governments, and other systems by which society is governed, this short film shows the true social reality of many people “on the street”.

A Personal Fidget
0%

A Personal Fidget(en)

Based upon a habitual fidget of the filmmaker involving the tags in his clothing, Reilly Mitchell explores the feelings of his past by removing something that has always stayed so close to him and turning it into something new.

Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority
75%

Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority(en)

2006-03-25

A thought-provoking documentary on the current and historical causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.

Vacuumin’ Around
0%

Vacuumin’ Around(hu)

2025-03-22

A documentary about a person who cleans his room with a vacuum cleaner, filled with disasters and mishaps.

Dreamed to sea
0%

Dreamed to sea(es)

2023-11-16

A monster that lives in the darkest part of the sea, a dreamlike representation of the journey towards the depths of something that one wants to avoid and that is finally faced.

AIPOKAMORHC
0%

AIPOKAMORHC(en)

2025-03-28

A unique visual interpretation of Tyler, the Creator's latest album, Chromakopia.

The Eichmann Trial
0%

The Eichmann Trial(en)

2025-10-22

In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
0%

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait(en)

2024-08-08

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to the potential Margaret envisaged for film as a poetic medium.

Making the Nature Scene
0%

Making the Nature Scene(en)

1985-01-01

Long before Kim Gordon was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Body/Head, she was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Sonic Youth. In the ’80s, Gordon and her bandmates were fixtures of New York’s downtown art and music scene; one regular haunt of theirs was legendary nightclub Danceteria, which served as the setting for a short film Gordon made sometime around 1985. Now, as Dangerous Minds points out, said video has surfaced online thanks to filmmaker/designer Chris Habib (a.k.a. Visitor Design). “Excellent video I found in my Sonic Youth archive,” Habib writes on the clip’s Vimeo page. “I digitized it for Kim during her [early 2000s] CLUB IN THE SHADOWS exhibition at Kenny Schachter’s old space in the West Village.”

Routine
100%

Routine(hu)

2025-03-30

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

Trials and Initiation
0%

Trials and Initiation(ko)

2025-05-03

Here is an actor, one who has been asked to dwell in the perilous gap between text and image. In the voids where traces of the past have been erased by an unknown error, she begins to assemble her own script.