“White Trash – it's the last racist thing you can say and get away with” (John Waters). The protagonists in this section have not yet sunk so low, but most are on their way. This programme addresses fears of rejection, marginalisation and loss of identity. Offers Herself as a Bride for $10,000 is a newsreel report on a young woman offering herself for marriage to support her poverty-stricken family during the Great Depression. Ricky and Rocky documents the oppressive atmosphere of a “lower middle class backyard wedding shower” in Chicago. Some Girl Who Tells Stories is a bleak coming-of-age tale of a young woman described in breathless, autobiographical style. The protagonist of American Dreamer, who lives with his mother in a rundown shack in Florida, searches for his identity through 9/11 and in doing so becomes a figure symbolic of the desperately aggressive American psyche, one who understands the world as little as they are understood by the world. Hardrock and his main instrument, the electric guitar, are firmly in white hands, as are the guitars in the YouTube mash-up Paganini Caprice no. 5.

Offers Herself as a Bride for $10,000, Hearst Metrotone News, us 1931, 2 min
Ricky and Rocky, Tom Palazzolo & Jeff Kreines, us 1971, 15 min
Some Girl Who Tells Stories, Whitney Johnston, us 2012, 11 min
American Dreamer, Thomas Haley, fr/us 2013, 32 min *
Paganini Caprice no. 5, Cory Arcangel, us 2012, 4 min

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* Producer Adriana Ferrarese will be present for a Q&A