Packet 6: Tossup 1

While living in Scandinavia, a director from this country made the 14-hour-long pro-nuclear disarmament film Resan and a three-hour-long biopic of Edvard Munch. (15[1])That director (15[1])from this country (15[1])reads out the temperature throughout a 1971 (15[1])film in which guards (15[1])force detainees to trek for miles without water towards a flag planted across a desert. (-5[2])This is the home country of the director of the mockumentaries La Commune, The War Game, and Punishment Park. A 2016 (15[1])film from this country juxtaposes footage of Nicolae (*) Ceaușescu’s execution with clips from (-5[1])Jane Fonda’s aerobics videos. (10[1])That film from this country uses the production of Stalker to discuss a concept whose portmanteau name was coined by a Russian historian. A director from this country uses title cards in all-caps Helvetica to punctuate voiceover-heavy films about media, such as The Century of the Self and HyperNormalisation. (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, name this home country of Peter Watkins and Adam Curtis. ■END■ (10[2]0[5])

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