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The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

1989 · 45 min · Documentary

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted icons of cultural pride in two of Europes more allegedly libertarian democracies.

Directed by Jonathan Reiss

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