Select Media Festival 3
Insurgent Media Arts | October 13-22 2004 | Chicago U$A
October 16, 2004
ALTERATIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
ALTERATIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Various Directors, US/Japan, ca. 75 min.
Saturday, October 16, 4:30 pm (Gene Siskel Film Center)
Graphic designers, artists and modern day cultural producers are working with some guidance and influence of situationist philosophy. The utopian in us all cannot wait for a distant revolution instead we reinvent everyday life here and now. Interviews, motion graphics, and mini documentations of artists defying the monocultural life. Includes work by Cody Hudson, Barnstormers, Delaware Collective, Dithers, Western State, and Pablo Aravena.
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
1997, Johan Grimonprez, Belgium/France, 70 min.
Saturday, October 16, 6:15 pm (Gene Siskel Film Center)
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9-11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960's and 1970's. By the 1990's, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases. Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster.
PickAxe and NAWLA action
PickAxe and NAWLA action
Saturday Oct 16, 7pm
High school 1542 N Milwaukee Ace 3rd floor
PickaXe: An arsonist burns 9000 acres of protected old-growth public
forest in Oregon that can not be logged unless it burns. To stop the
proposed "salvage" logging of this incredible ancient forest, citizens are moved to blockade a road and keep the government out. After facing down a bulldozer and the State Police, the fort now known as the gateway to the Cascadia Free State becomes the focus for a developing community dedicated to protecting ancient forests throughout the mountains of Oregon. The film shows confrontations with disgruntled loggers, mass arrests and a 75 day hunger strike.
After the film will be a discussion about the North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA), a free trade organization responsible for the destruction of 95% US forests that were standing as of 1800. NAWLA is having their annual Trade Show here in Chicago from Oct. 21-23 and we will be present to expose their unsustainable and destructive forestry practices. Come and find out how to get plugged into the upcoming events.
film excerpt (entertaining too)
http://crimethinc.com/a/fmp/video/onlyone.mov
admission: $5 donation
WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
2004, Danny Schechter, USA , 105 min.
Saturday, October 16, 7:45 pm (Gene Siskel Film Center)
There were two wars in Iraq ˆ A military assault and a media war. The former was well covered; the latter was not. Independent filmmaker, Emmy award-winning TV journalist, network news veteran, author and media critic Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the deceptive role of the media in reporting on, and promoting the invasion in Iraq. His latest film, WMD is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity mislead the American people by 'selling' the war to influence public opinion.
Pret À Revolter Fashion Show
Oct 16, 2004
10pm
Pret a Revolter Fashion Show
Location TBA
Our unconventional insurgent fashion attack features work by local designers and friends from Miami.
Designers:
Melina Ausikaitis with Riley Messina, “Societairé" by Rob Lowe and Rose Lazar, Erin Dance, Stephany Colunga, weft by Jillian Gryzlak, and Free Gums.
Also featuring:
Live performance by Small Bathroom Fire and super secret guest Djs, and complementary refreshments
Admission: free with SMF3 pass or $10 with RSVP joeproulx@heavengallery.com