Jim Finn from Chicago makes videos about small animals, communism, love, and the disease-like spread of world capitalism. His house is a kind of MGM lot for experimental animal videos. He uses 16mm film and mini dv, as well as appropriated footage. Jim Finn's first feature film, the communist love story "Interkosmos", premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year. Wustenspringmaus or gerbil, is the prequal.

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