Select Media Festival 3
Insurgent Media Arts | October 13-22 2004 | Chicago U$A


October 18, 2004

BUSH FAMILY FORTUNES

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Chicago Premiere!
BUSH FAMILY FORTUNES
2003, Greg Palast, UK, 70 min.
Monday, October 18, 6:30 pm (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Investigative reporter Greg Palast turns his magnifying glass on the Bush dynasty, asking why the Bush family name has been associated with so many scandals over the last twenty-five years. BUSH FAMILY FORTUNES follows the award-winning reporter on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team‚s spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq.

SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM

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SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM
1999, Craig Baldwin, USA, 93 min.
Monday, October 18, 8:00 pm (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Spectres of the Spectrum is a feature-length 16mm film utilizing old 'kinescopes' to create an eerie, haunted "media-archaeology" zone for a sci-fi time-travel tale, wherein live-action actors search for a hidden electromagnetic secret to save the planet from a futuristic war-machine, inspired by HAARP the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.