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In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.

Two couples go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.

Abu Zeit al-Hilali works in the sale of beans and falafel, and decides to move to Zamalek, and marries Mervat without the knowledge of her father in his building, but her feelings are still attached to her lover Alaa.

W.C.Fields enters the Warmer Bros. Studio. Beans tries to drive in, but the guard throws him and his car against a tree. Charlie Chaplin drives in, followed by Oliver Hardy on foot - but we see that it's really Beans in disguise. Oliver Owl is directing a picture; Beans sneaks onto the stage. He's watching from a catwalk when someone knocks him off, into the middle of the scene. Beans is thrown off the set, right into the set of a Frankenstein movie. He accidentally brings the robotic monster to life, and it crashes into the original studio, eating the camera. Beans tries to stop the monster, but is sent flying. He lands against a wind machine. which chops up the monster.

Eva is a career woman who loves her job and hates beans. In the aftermath of rejecting a marriage proposal, Eva finds herself increasingly tormented when a sentient can of beans sets out to ruin her life. Fighting to maintain her autonomy, Eva endures the bean’s tactics until she must make a choice: betray herself, or die.

In an age of darkness and despair, a century of pain and suffering, a hero rises from the ashes of known civilization and defeats the forces of evil. And just who may this hero be? BEAN BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Bean Pit follows Barold, a disgruntled employee working for BP (Bean Pit) Beans. His day begins like any other, running routine inspections on the Infinite Bean Pit with his co-worker Benny. What first starts as a “normal” day at work quickly devolves into chaos as Barold inadvertently witnesses the terrors that his corporate overlords are trying to hide. Barold finds himself entangled in BP Beans’ web of conspiracies, and can’t seem to find his way out.

Bottleneck is an experimental video which is, in part, a reflection on borders. Using a jar of sprouting Mung beans as a metaphor it takes into consideration contemporary manifestations of national borders as they relate to regional and international growth and movement. This video emerges from questions such as: Who gains access? How does water transform a space and its borders? Who can move freely and access resources? What moves in and out of a given space and the boundaries that attempt to demarcate and contain it?

A young woman’s world is changed when her bodily excretions start turning into beans.