A US military cover band returns from deployment in Kuwait, a 7 Eleven blares classical music from its awnings to discourage the homeless from loitering, a choir sings at the bedsides of the dying, and teenagers appropriate the filmmaker's own music to soundtrack "Call Of Duty" first-person-shooter gameplay on Youtube. "In The Sweet Arms” asks how our relationship to music shapes our politics, our deepest-held aspirations, and our language for understanding our position in the world.

Location: Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall, Room 108