Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images

Cinematexas, Austin TX, September 24, 25, 26, 2004


All events are free

Sundays Schedule now includes a marine recently returned from fighting in Iraq who is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War

Venue: The Warehouse at American Youthworks, 216 E. 4th St (between Brazos St. and San Jacinto Blvd.).

Friday 24th

Up Shit Creek


6:30-7:00 Obstacle (excerpt).

Directed by Nida Sinnokrot.

English and Arabic. 30 minutes

Obstacle journeys along the Israeli wall currently being built inside the West Bank in Palestine. The wall has been carefully designed to annex much of the West Banks water and most of its good land.

7:00-8:30pm Bi Dam (With Blood)

English and Arabic. 50 minutes

Directed by Juliana Fredman & Dan O'Reilly-Rowe.
Bi Dam reveals the extent to which the Israeli occupation is sundering Palestinian health services. Densely populated areas are routinely ‘closed’ to patients traveling for treatment, ambulances have been attacked and water polluted, [ergo up shit creek]. Dan O’Reilly-Rowe will be available to answer questions after the screening.

Saturday 25th

Guilty Until Proven


1:00-2:00pm Persons of Interest

Directed by Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse.

Following 9/11 the US Justice Dept. interned and or expelled more than a thousand Arab and Muslim immigrants. These persons of interest are the human cost of the domestic war on terror.

2:00-4:00pm Steve Kurtz and Steven Barnes of Critical Art Ensemble.

CAE are a collective of five artists of various specializations dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics, and critical theory. Members will present the ideas and artwork from the CAE and discuss the bioterror witchhunt brought against Kurtz by the FBI using the US Patriot Act.

Donations can be made towards the
CAE defense fund at all Parallax events.

4:00-5:30PM - Social Engineering and Social Hacking

The Hi-jinx of The Yes Men and other Modern Tactical Media Practitioners is a screening of work by activists and artists who are hacking outside the confines of the computer to make political statements about physical and online realities. The artists include Conglomco.org, The Carbon Defense League, The Institute for Applied Autonomy, The Critical Art Ensemble, BreathingPlanet.net, PeoplesJeans.com, rtmark, and more.

The Yes Men have impersonated some of the world's most powerful criminals at conferences, on the web, and on television, in order to correct their identities. This one hour program will include never seen footage of recent Yes Men pranks.

Tyler Nordgren, a member of The Yes Men and Co-founder of re-code.com, will click through the projects online, and screen videos while explaining their technical and conceptual aspects.

Sunday 26th

Who would the Iraqis vote for?

12:00-1:00pm Breakfast in Baghdad (excerpt)

Directed by David Martinez

David Martinez spent three and a half months in Iraq, including time in Fallujah during the U.S. siege. He will be present to answer questions after the screening.

1:00-2:00pm War(p)

Rob Sarra, a marine recently returned from combat in Iraq and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War will talk about his experiences as a marine and an organizer. Rob Eschelman, who went to Iraq as an independant journalist will also be present. Shorts and slides by others who have been to Iraq will accompany the guests. This session will be an open forum for discussions with journalists and activists who have returned from the front line.

2:00-4:00pm None of the Above

The RNC forum will screen short films, PSAs and videos from the convention. Activists who went to New York will discuss the RNC and anti war prospects beyond the election.

Updates will be available from cinematexas.org, go to the Parallax link. We are adding installations and more films.