Foreign Names

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 5 min
  • Premiere: 2012. January 1.

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.

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Guy Ben Ner

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Guy Ben Ner

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