
Foreign Names
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.
- Year: 2012
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- Genre: Documentary
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- Keyword: israel, aroma, experimental
- Director: Guy Ben Ner
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