“Own Snore | or | My American Girlfriend”
director | writer: oliver hockenhull | camera | randy rotheisler with | beth henderson & sandy mederios
21 minutes
A kinda of neo-godardian post-post-punk film on Canadian-US relations and the war in Iraq + tap dancing, a classic Hotchkiss machine gun, a cute datsun convertible circa 1968 + shuttle cocks & Geezus.
The U.S. Ambassador said: “More resources need to be allocated so that the Canadian military can increase troop strength, it needs to become more interoperable with U.S.Forces and it needs to develop a lift capability that we think the modern military should have.” He also said that when he was appointed ambassador
— his only “marching orders” were to “work on increasing Canada’s defence budget.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire
Give me a TV network for 6 month and I will give you a war.
Once again we are defending both ourselves and the safety and survivability of civilization itself. We did not seek it, but we fought it and we prevailed. We fought them and imposed our will on them and we killed them until we imposed on them law and order and freedom and democracy. We have never been a colonial power. We do not leave behind an occupying army, et cetera.