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VALUE ADDED CINEMA + GI JOE SHORTS AND HOMELAND HOWDOWN
2001-2003, Various Directors, USA, 90 min.
VALUE ADDED CINEMA + GI JOE SHORTS AND HOMELAND HOWDOWN
2001-2003, Various Directors, USA, 90 min.
still from GI JOE SHORTS
Cultural interference takes many shapes in this program. VALUE ADDED CINEMA by Steve Seid and Peter Conheim, 48 min, A strangely narrative trip through three-plus decades of often-notorious sequences of 'product placements' in Hollywood movies. Cringe as mega-stars such as Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise shill their way through a cavalcade of Coke, a predominance of Pepsi, and a maelstrom of McDonald's. You'll never look at 'activist' Sean Penn the same way again. - Melbourne Underground Film Festival. KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE, GI JOE PSA's by Eric Fensler, 15 min; Chicago filmmaker Eric Fensler focuses on videos that are dead and brings them back to life. In this project he takes animated shorts of old GI Joe's and gives them new audio tracks. 26 are in existence, all of which will be shown for the first time. HOMELAND HODOWN is selected shorts by Jason Archer and Paul Beck (Animators from the film WAKING LIFE).

HOMELAND HODOWN includes three segments that showcase their amazing work:

Music Videos:
David Byrne's "THE GREAT INTOXICATION" 2002
Molotov's FRILJOLERO" 2003
Juanes' LA PAGA" 2003

Social Commentary:
JESSIE 2003
WHOREMONGER 2002
QUICK AND EASY 2002
STRAIGHTOUT F*CKIN' 2003
KENNY 2002

Political Satire:
STATE OF THE UNION 2002
THE HOMELAND HOWDOWN 2003
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 | Gene Siskel Film Center | 8:00pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 | High School | 10:00pm