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18: FILM AND VIDEO PROGRAMS 20:30: 9-11 THEN AND NOW 2002-3, Various Directors, 57 min. AFTERMATH: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS FROM 9-11 2002, Guerrilla News Network, USA, 35 min. In this investigative documentary, Former Inspector General of the Dept. of Transportation and attorney Mary Schiavo, UC Professor Emeritus Peter Dale Scott, author and professor Michel Chossudovsky, From the Wilderness' Mike Ruppert, and author Nafeez Ahmed, among others, raise critical, unresolved questions surrounding the tragedy of September 11. AfterMath investigates the troubling span of issues that have arisen since the attacks, including: the negligence of military officials in immediately reacting to the hijackings, proven links between the hijackers, Pakistani intelligence (ISI) and the CIA, the role of oil in the Eurasian conflict and, finally, the impact of post-911 legislation on American civil liberties. GNN’s seminal work S-11 RED UX and Chicago filmmaker P Rettig’s 10-min. short DESPOTISM, THEN AND NOW opens the program. DESPOTISM, THEN AND NOW 2003, P Rettig, USA, 10 min Lessons in identifying despotic elements in your society. S/11 REDUX 2001, GNN and Stephen Marshall, USA, 12 min. This sound-bite blitzkrieg challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. www.gnn.tv 22:30: HOMELAND INSECURITY + 15 MINUTES OF HATE 2000-3, Various Directors, USA, 85 min. An assembly of work that is as unrelenting as it is refreshing in its criticism of the current administration with regards to Terror, Iraq and Infowars.The program includes: AT HOME AND ABROAD by Haik Hoisington, 3 min. Flash re-animation of a speech by President Bush. STATE OF THE UNION 2001, Bryan Boyce, USA, 2 min. Baby Bush meets Tubby-land. Completed in August 2001, this project was initially just a simple comic skewering of George W. Bush and his defense policies-but after September 11th, it took on a whole new meaning. State of the Union now has a surreal documentary quality that is genuinely disturbing. - Video Data Bank 2 MINUTES OF HATE 2003, Bryan Boyce, USA, 2 min. A brand new video from the maker of STATE OF THE UNION, ELECTION COLLECTIBLES and WORLD'S FAIR WORLD. "It's a combination fox news slam / Orwell centenary celebration." - Bryan Boyce TERROR IRAQ WEAPONS 2002, Mike Nourse, USA, 4 min. This is not a re-mix. This is a summary. No words have been repeated, and all instances appear in chronological order, taken from a 30 minute speech given by President George W. Bush. Scary isn't it? - Balagan Festival STATE OF THE UNION 2002, Jason Archer, USA, 4 min. The Prez's popular State of the Union speech detourned via rotoscoping and nice edits. S/11 REDUX 2001, GNN and Stephen Marshall, USA, 12 min. This sound-bite blitzkrieg challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. www.gnn.tv MF-47 NETWORK -ALIENS 2001, Davy Force!, USA, 4 min. They are here on CNN MSNBCIA! A MuthaFucka 47 newscast lead by Ashcroft and friends. BUSH'S ALADIN (ARABIAN NIGHTS) 2003, Chinese Johnny, USA,4 min. Did the Bush Administration use this Hanna Barberra Arabian Nights cartoon as a template to invade and occupy Iraq? SEEING BUSH THROUGH THE TREES 2003, Jan van Neunen,The Netherlands, 2 min. Mc Bush. A soon to be classic homage ot the puppet. DER SHERIFF 2003, DAF,Germany, 4 min. Oil.. sweet elixer. LIES LIES LIES 2003, Haik Hoisington, USA, 2 min. Flash animation exercise in outing ONE of the lies of the Bush administration. HOMELAND HOWDOWN 2003, Paul Beck and Jason Archer, USA, 4 min. The second riposte in the trilogy of Bushwhacking. PUBLIC MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR 2003, Indymedia Mohawk, USA, 30 min. Part scathing critique, part call to action, Independent Media In A Time Of War argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. Independent media has a crucial responsibility to "go to where the silence is," says narrator Amy Goodman, to represent the diverse voices of people engaged in dissent. She makes a compelling argument that the news media have failed to represent "the true face of war." Goodman criticizes the refusal to report civilian war casualties during the 2003 Iraq invasion and the new phenomenon of "embedded reporters," as examples of a pro-military bias in the corporate media. WHITE AMERICA 2002,GNN, USA, 4 min. Web-based video GNN made for Eminem. Received volumnous downloads and tons of controversy. LITTLE BROTHER GETS BUSTED 2001, CELL Media, USA, 8 min. In this lively and engaging tale, a naive young robot runs afoul of the law - and wacky hijinks ensue! Through the trials and tribulations of our protagonist, we discover the nuances of U.S. drug enforcement policy and learn valuable lessons including proper procedures for handling police interrogations and hiding contraband in one's anal cavity. Stars "Little Brother" (widely acclaimed robotic spokesman for the Institute for Applied Autonomy) with an international cast. Originally released as a filmstrip, Little Brother Gets Busted is now available in a range of formats, including VHS, Shockwave, MPEG, and self-running PowerPoint presentation. 00:30:VALUE
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19: FILM AND VIDEO PROGRAMS 20:30: BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER + ENERGY COUNTRY 2003, Paul Chan and Deborah Stratman, USA, 74:30 min. BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER 2003, Paul Chan, USA/Iraq, 60 min. From Dec. 14 to Jan. 14, Chan lived in Baghdad filming the people and the culture. He traveled to Iraq as a member of the Iraq Peace Team, a group initiated by Voices in the Wilderness, an independent international campaign that since 1996 has attempted to end the economic sanctions and warfare against the people of Iraq. Members of Voices include teachers, artists and church workers who live in Iraq at different times documenting the lives of Iraqi citizens. The Iraq Peace Team began in Sept. 2002 in an attempt to prevent a U.S. attack on Iraq through the use of non-violent actions. Today the team remains in Iraq recording the Iraqi citizens' experiences throughout the war and occupation with the goal of increasing awareness of the situation. The piece is a montage of scenes filmed in single channel digital video. Chicago filmmaker Deborah Stratman's 14-min. short ENERGY COUNTRY opens the program. ENERGY COUNTRY 2003, Deborah Stratman, USA, 14:30 min. The frenzied detritus of trading floors, smart weaponry and the religious right are woven through the petrochemical landscapes of Southeast Texas. This short video harangue questions land use policy as it serves oil industry, patriotism as it absolves foreign aggression, and fundamentalism as it calcifies thinking. 22:30: DIGITAL VIDEO DETOURNEMENT + DON'T CALL ME CRAZY ON THE 4th OF JULY 2000-3, Various Directors, 80 min. The works in this program feature work by radical cultural workers and experimental videomakers critiquing various coercive forces and systems by remixing and modifyng pre-existing media. The program includes: ALICE IN WONDERLAND or WHO IS GUY DEBORD? 2003, Electrodist, 23 min. This is a wonderful re-edit of this Disney classic. It's about time you familiarise yourself with this project that is meant to teach kids a bit about the society of the spectacle. 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. TV-CELL PHONE 2001, Davy Force!, USA, 1.5 min. Another interruption from the MF-47 mind control network. STRATEGIC CYBER DEFENCE 2003, Daracq Kuracqwald, USA, 4 min. the edit reveals the heart of the message. ROCKED BY RAPE 2002, Evolution Control Commitee, USA, 5 min. The song that started the Mash-up phenomena in video form. DON'T CALL ME CRAZY ON THE 4th OF JULY 2003, Richard Pell , USA, 36 min Why does Bob Lansberry think someone is stealing his mail? Why does the CIA think the Russians cornered the world market in LSD? Why does Ted Kaczynski hate his college professor? Why is Dr. Jose Delgado not afraid of an angry bull? 00:30: AESTHETIC UNDERGROUND 2001-3, Various Directors, Various Countries, 80 min. Works made with flash and panash, independent music video, eye candy for existentials, startling and beautiful techniques, animative skill and experimental video. The program includes: DOMO DARKO 2002, Cory Wrench, UK, 4 min. Japanese animation cult vs. Donnie Darko. Domo-kun is a web cult. You must have seen him, he looks like a weetabix with a mouth. His 30 second stop-motion vignettes exude a charm and warmth that have brought him fame greater than his real job as the mascot of Japanese satellite TV show BS2. Fnord has taken clips and remixed them with the song Mad World from Donnie Darko. The result is unlike anything we've featured on b3ta before. It's exquisite. - Techy Musings OPTIMIZER CUSTOMIZER 2002, Jan van Neunen, The Netherlands, 12 min. Biotechnology, modern values, absurdity and madness are some of the themes explored in this technically and artistically groundbreaking animated video. Action unfolds like an amusing yet terrifying nightmare as tough questions are posed about the way we live. - konscious BUSCAM No. 2 2001/2002, Matthias Fritsch, Germany 4 min. Experimental film filmed in Cuba. GUMBY AND EXTREME ANIMALS 2003, Paper Rad, USA, 10 min The notorious art collectives' offering of new psychedilic video work remixing weird christian children videos, espn clips, and gumby flash animations . hp, kw, sl, lw 2003, Robert Miller,USA, 4 min. Segments of experimentation in frame rates and filtering. ALLAHU AKBAR 2003, Usama Alshaibi, USA, 6 min. Hypnotic, mathmatical arabic patterns. BIGGER BETTER 2003, Ton Meijdam, The Netherlands, 5 min. Bill Gates leads his friends through a journey into the American Way. SET-4 2003, Jan van Neunen, The Netherlands, 4 min. Glitch mix of sports action. Classic van Neunen. YUPPSTER VIDEO 2003, Jon Satrom, USA 3 min. The new school of lo-tech html graphic arts. SIGN 2001, Nobukazu Takemura / Katsura Moschino , Japan. 10 min Collaboration between artist, Katsuro Moschino and musician, Nobukazu Takemura. The world Moschino draws looks looks pretty similar to the one we live in today... pitting nature against industry with ambiguous results. http://www.thrilljockey.com Bonus Illegal video!! Phil
Patiris Watch some GI JOE PSAs: GI
Joe , Knowing Was Half the Battle, Public Service Announecements
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FILM AND VIDEO PROGRAMS 20:30: THE TACTICS OF INTERFERENCE 22:30: SURPLUS 00:30: HOMELAND INSECURITY + 15 MINUTES OF HATE 20:30:
THE TACTICS OF INTERFERENCE RETOOLING
DISSENT 22:30: SURPLUS 2003, Erik Gandini, USA, 52 min. Consumer confidence has been low since September 11. A quick war against Iraq was supposed to be the only way to restore that confidence - and our happiness. But is shopping our salvation? Do we have a choice? The world was shocked when young protesters in Seattle, Genoa, and Gothenburg attacked shop windows, cars, and banks. Surplus starts during the chaotic days of the G8 summit in Genoa and sets off on a world journey seeking the answer to another question: why? The shorts WITH LOGOORHEA (2003) by Onur Tukel, 2 min.; and HYPNO CHICKEN (2000) by Davy Force!, 9 min. opens the program. Various formats. MINDBOMB TV, 6 min. 2002-2003, mindbomb.tv 00:30: HOMELAND INSECURITY + 15 MINUTES OF HATE repeat from Dec 18 22:30 2000-3, Various Directors, USA, 85 min. An assembly of work that is as unrelenting as it is refreshing in its criticism of the current administration with regards to Terror, Iraq and Infowars.The program includes: AT HOME AND ABROAD by Haik Hoisington, 3 min. Flash re-animation of a speech by President Bush. STATE OF THE UNION 2001, Bryan Boyce, USA, 2 min. Baby Bush meets Tubby-land. Completed in August 2001, this project was initially just a simple comic skewering of George W. Bush and his defense policies-but after September 11th, it took on a whole new meaning. State of the Union now has a surreal documentary quality that is genuinely disturbing. - Video Data Bank 2 MINUTES OF HATE 2003, Bryan Boyce, USA, 2 min. A brand new video from the maker of STATE OF THE UNION, ELECTION COLLECTIBLES and WORLD'S FAIR WORLD. "It's a combination fox news slam / Orwell centenary celebration." - Bryan Boyce TERROR IRAQ WEAPONS 2002, Mike Nourse, USA, 4 min. This is not a re-mix. This is a summary. No words have been repeated, and all instances appear in chronological order, taken from a 30 minute speech given by President George W. Bush. Scary isn't it? - Balagan Festival STATE OF THE UNION 2002, Jason Archer, USA, 4 min. The Prez's popular State of the Union speech detourned via rotoscoping and nice edits. S/11 REDUX 2001, GNN and Stephen Marshall, USA, 12 min. This sound-bite blitzkrieg challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. www.gnn.tv MF-47 NETWORK -ALIENS 2001, Davy Force!, USA, 4 min. They are here on CNN MSNBCIA! A MuthaFucka 47 newscast lead by Ashcroft and friends. BUSH'S ALADIN (ARABIAN NIGHTS) 2003, Chinese Johnny, USA,4 min. Did the Bush Administration use this Hanna Barberra Arabian Nights cartoon as a template to invade and occupy Iraq? SEEING BUSH THROUGH THE TREES 2003, Jan van Neunen,The Netherlands, 2 min. Mc Bush. A soon to be classic homage ot the puppet. DER SHERIFF 2003, DAF,Germany, 4 min. Oil.. sweet elixer. LIES LIES LIES 2003, Haik Hoisington, USA, 2 min. Flash animation exercise in outing ONE of the lies of the Bush administration. HOMELAND HOWDOWN 2003, Paul Beck and Jason Archer, USA, 4 min. The second riposte in the trilogy of Bushwhacking. PUBLIC MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR 2003, Indymedia Mohawk, USA, 30 min. Part scathing critique, part call to action, Independent Media In A Time Of War argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. Independent media has a crucial responsibility to "go to where the silence is," says narrator Amy Goodman, to represent the diverse voices of people engaged in dissent. She makes a compelling argument that the news media have failed to represent "the true face of war." Goodman criticizes the refusal to report civilian war casualties during the 2003 Iraq invasion and the new phenomenon of "embedded reporters," as examples of a pro-military bias in the corporate media. WHITE AMERICA 2002,GNN, USA, 4 min. Web-based video GNN made for Eminem. Received volumnous downloads and tons of controversy. LITTLE BROTHER GETS BUSTED 2001, CELL Media, USA, 8 min. In this lively and engaging tale, a naive young robot runs afoul of the law - and wacky hijinks ensue! Through the trials and tribulations of our protagonist, we discover the nuances of U.S. drug enforcement policy and learn valuable lessons including proper procedures for handling police interrogations and hiding contraband in one's anal cavity. Stars "Little Brother" (widely acclaimed robotic spokesman for the Institute for Applied Autonomy) with an international cast. Originally released as a filmstrip, Little Brother Gets Busted is now available in a range of formats, including VHS, Shockwave, MPEG, and self-running PowerPoint presentation. |