An alternative music video featuring R.E.M., and directed by Jem Cohen. A poetic and passionate indictment of a world where out-of-control military budgets are paid for at the expense of the impoverished.
Also available on the Jem Cohen compilations Just Hold Still and Jem Cohen: Early Works
The C-Hundred Film Corp was founded in 1987 by Jim McKay and Michael J. Stipe. In the early 1990s the organization produced an award-winning series of 21 public service announcements, collectively titled Direct Effect. Since then the company has developed numerous independent features, including Girls Town (Jim McKay, 1996), Benjamin Smoke (Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, 2000), Our Song (Jim McKay, 2000), The Sleepy Time Gal (Christopher Munch, 2001), and Stranger Inside (Cheryl Dunye, 2001).