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September 15, 2005 - 4:04pm -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
Culture

"Towards a Third Cinema:


Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema ot Liberation the Third World"

Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino

"...we must discuss, we must invent..." — Frantz Fanon

just a short time ago it would have seemed like a
Quixotic adventure in the colonised, neocolonised, or
even the imperialist nations themselves to make any
attempt to create films of decolonisation that turned their
back on or actively opposed the System. Until recently,
film had been synonymous with spectacle or entertainment: in a word, it was one more consumer good. At best,
films succeeded in bearing witness to the decay of
bourgeois values and testifying to social injustice. As a
rule, films only dealt with effect, never with cause; it
was cinema of mystification or anti-historicism. It was
surplus value cinema. Caught up in these conditions,
films, the most valuable tool of communication of our
times, were destined to satisfy only the ideological and
economic interests of the owners of the film industry, the
lords of the world film market, the great majority of
whom were from the United States.

September 15, 2005 - 12:23pm -- jim
Announcements
Culture

Steve Franco writes:

"Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’

Washington, DC, Nov. 2–Dec. 11, 2005

A Play by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo from spoken evidence

Directed by Serge Seiden

Tight, tense and boldly current, Guantanamo tells the gripping true stories of four British residents imprisoned at Guantanamo and paints an unforgettable portrait of America’s controversial prison. Guantanamo tackles one of the most significant and troubling issues of our time, the U.S. government’s arrest and imprisonment of terrorist suspects without due process. Actor Harsh Nayyar, who played Mr. Begg, father of Guantanamo inmate Moazzam Begg, in the New York production, returns to the role at The Studio Theatre.

September 9, 2005 - 9:16pm -- nolympics
Announcements
Culture

"Parallax View 2005"

Austin, Texas, Spet. 14-18, 2005


Parallax View runs from 14th to the 18th of September. The details below are for the fundraiser, happening this weekend. Get down there for real social, cultural and political goodtimes.

The main event includes films by Fernando Solanas the legend of South American film. He will attend Parallax and offers a couple of workshops instructing in the dark arts of revolutionary expression.

September 8, 2005 - 6:01pm -- nolympics
Reviews
Culture

"Against the Grain
An Interview with Pawel Pawlikowski"
Richard Porton, Cineaste

Insistent on not being pigeonholed, Pawel Pawlikowski is one of the most distinctive voices in recent British cinema—a director who refuses to churn out films that conform to predictable trends and generic prescriptions. Given the usual critical tendency to formulate Manichean divisions between escapist commercial fluff and committed political cinema, Pawlikowski is noteworthy for steering clear of both formulaic genre cinema and the heavy-handed didacticism that often mars well-intentioned political films. While Pawlikowski's films occasionally evoke the observational prowess of Ken Loach and his willingness to collaborate with his actors before cementing a final shooting script is reminiscent of some aspects of Mike Leigh's working method, Pawlikowski's two theatrical features— Last Resort (2000) and his most recent film, My Summer of Love — are also imbued with the sometimes wry, often sardonic spirit of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s. Like Milos Forman, Pawlikowski is less interested in convoluted narratives than in fablelike character studies and more preoccupied with the ‘unrepeatable' moments offered by idiosyncratic actors than entranced with glamorous stars.

September 7, 2005 - 5:01pm -- jim
Announcements
Culture

V. Castellarin writes:

"Mistaken Identity: Sikhs in America"

Ottawa, Sept. 12, 2005

Premiere screening (By Invitation Only) in Canada of "Mistaken Identity:Sikhs in America" on 12 September.

It will commemorate the 4th anniversary of 9/11 and 2nd month of 7/7 in London, UK. Member of Parliament, Honorable David Kilgour, MP, will be hosting the "Unity in Diversity" event from 3–5 PM, at the House of Commons, Parliament Hill, Room 200, West Block, Ottawa, Ontario. There will be a 15 minutes press conference before the 3:30 screening, where MP Kilgour will announce the need for more "unity in cultural and religious diversity" in Canada and the world. After the film, there will be 30 min for Q & A and network in discuss in short 3 mins.

September 6, 2005 - 8:48am -- jim
Announcements
Culture

Sarah Kanouse writes:

"Urban, Rural, Wild" Exhibition
Chicago, September 8–October 22, 2005

Based at I space (230 W. Superior, Chicago);
Related events at other locations
http://www.walkinginplace.org/ispace

“Urban, Rural, Wild” presents new work by eight artists addressing the historical and contemporary relationships among metropolitan Chicago, rural downstate Illinois, and the places where the conceptual, associative, and physical urban-rural divide breaks down. Part exhibition and part investigative platform, “Urban, Rural, Wild” presents gallery installations, associated off-site events, a resource center, and a film series to interrogate, rethink, and re-imagine city and country in the midwest.

September 6, 2005 - 8:37am -- jim
Announcements
Culture

NOT BORED! writes:

"Is the Reichstag Burning?"

True Authors Identified

Not Bored!


It is commonly thought than Gianfranco Sanguinetti — the author of "On Terrorism and the State" (1978) — also wrote "Il Reichstag Brucia?" ("Is the Reichstag Burning?" 1969), which is a classic situationist denunciation of terrorism executed by the State (in this case, the secret services of Italy). But recently translated materials (see below) indicate that the tract's real author were other situationists: Eduardo Rothe and Paul Cesoni.

September 3, 2005 - 10:15am -- stevphen
Events
Culture

The Circus Amok season has begun. If you haven’t seen Amok, well.. now’s your opportunity!

http://www.circusamok.org

Thurs, Sept 1 Riverside Park (Manhattan), 6pm

Fri, Sept 2 Fort Greene Park (Brooklyn), 6pm

Sat, Sept 3 Coney Island (Brooklyn) 2pm & pm

Sun, Sept 4 Marcus Garvey Park (Manhattan) 4pm

Monday, Sept 5 McCarren Park (Brooklyn) 1pm & 4pm

Thursday, Sept 8 Styvesant Cove (Manhattan) 6pm

Friday, Sept 9 Herbert Von King (Brooklyn) 6pm

Saturday, Sept 10 St. Mary's (Bronx) 4pm

Sunday, Sept 11 Prospect Park (Brooklyn) 1pm & 4pm

Thursday, Sept 15 Union Square Park (Manhattan) 1pm &
4pm

Friday, Sept 16 Sunset Park (Brooklyn), 5pm

Sunday, Sept 18 Highland Park (Queens), 4pm

Thursday, Sept 22 Bedford Playground (Brooklyn), 5pm

Friday, Sept 23 Washington Square Park (Manhattan),
5pm

Saturday, Sept 24 Rufus King Park (Queens), 2pm & 5pm

Sunday, Sept 25 Tompkins Square Park (Manhattan), 1pm & 4pm

September 2, 2005 - 11:24am -- stevphen
Events
Culture

The Connection Between the War Against Terrorism, Economics and Media-Art

Researchers, activists and media-artists meet on the Trans-Siberian train from Moscow to Beijing September 11th –20th 2005.

The conference “Capturing the Moving Minds” gathers a pack of people … artists, economists, researchers, philosophers, activists … who are interested in the new logic of the economy, the new form of war against terrorism and in the new cooperative modes of creation and resistance, together in a space moving in time. Spatially moving bodies and bodies moving in time (through the different time zones) creates an event, a meeting that not really 'is' but 'is going on'.

Is this project about economics, is it political activity or a work of art? This “boundlessness” or “indeterminacy”, which always characterizes the creation of new, is where the energy of the project is coming: The enterprise expresses and exposes itself the “knowledge economy” in which it exists. It is something the orthodox conceptions about work, action, economy and art are unable to grasp. In this organizational experiment everybody is “alone together” like a pack of wolves around a fire having neighbours to the left and to the right but nobody behind their backs exposed to the desert.

August 26, 2005 - 6:30pm -- hydrarchist
News
Culture

AnttiR writes:

Night of the Street Arts in Helsinki
AnttiR

Night between 25th and 26th of August was "night of the arts" in Helsinki, that is different galleries, theatres and opera are open until late night, and there are many events in the streets as well. Because street arts such as graffiti and stickers have been seriously repressed thanks to so called "zero tolerance" policy, a number of artists and political activists (from squatter spectrum, not anarchist) wanted to organise "night of the street arts". This was a festival against violence and repression unleashed by city of Helsinki and private army of FPS (Finnish Protection Service) on their payroll. Organisers preferred not to announce their affiliations, and action was claimed by no any particular group.

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