Posted on 18-10-2003
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Auckland Indymedia presents.......
THE ANTIDOTE #4
An evening of alternative
political docos
Wedenesday 29th October 2003
The Classic Comedy Bar (321 Queen Street, CBD)
7.00pm
$3/$5
October's screening features docos on a range of issues: alternative
energy, animal rights, global economic justice and Latin America.
The Yes Men (a selection of video
exploits)
www.theyesmen.org
The Yes Men are a genderless, loose-knit association of some three
hundred impostors worldwide. Their feeling today can be summed up in one
simple phrase: Guerrilla Marketing Lifestyle acted out in the form of
pranks against the institutions that seek to vex and control us.
Although their name contains the word "Men," it doesn't
describe who they are, it describes what they do: they use any means
necessary to agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce,
ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their undercover
escapades to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of
business. In other words, the Yes Men are team players... but they play
for the opposing team.
The Wind
Julian Temple's evocative short film
about wind power shows the bleak future we face without a switch to
renewable forms of energy. Why continue down an energy path to famine,
flood, disease, and climate chaos, when offhsore wind power can provide a
sustainable alternative? (10mins)
SAFE - compilation of docos on animal
rights
Non-human animals the world over
bear the scourge of oppression & exploitation at the hands of humans,
violated in every respect to provide for a purely economic self-serving
human population. Thankfully, a burgeoning and vociferous chord of
compassion is emerging, of which New Zealand is a part. This compilation
of clips put together by SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation) documents
recent animal rights protests in New Zealand as well as the campaign to
end circus animal slavery. It takes a critical look at factory farming
and ends with the story of a New Yorker who goes through a crisis of
conscience and devotes his life to educating people about animal rights.
(30 mins)
Community workshops in Porto Alegre
A video about the work of a Centro
do Medios Independente (Indymedia Brasil), Porto Alegre, which does media
workshops with the MST (landless rural workers movement) and poor people
of local favelas (hillside shantytowns). It explains their practice and
how through working as one of the nodes of indymedia it applies ideas
shared over the internet. (Spanish with English subtitles).(12
mins)
Companero Piquetero
World pressures on the Argentine
economy have caused a tremendous collapse, leaving masses of workers and
their families without jobs or homes. The local Independent Media Center
leant a camera to a young "piquetero"(protester, one who
carries pickets) to document how members of the Unemployed Workers
Movement (MTD) occupy the land in the municipality of Lanus on the
outskirts of Buenos Aires. Edited in-camera, his insights into the nature
of life in the slums, the divisions between the ruling powers and the
poor people, the dangers and simple pleasures of his life show a people
who are desperate, defiant and determined to carry on with their lives.
(Spanish with English subtitles). (12mins)
Auckland Indymedia is part of the nationwide indymedia network that runs
the independent news website,
www.indymedia.org.nz
This is the fourth screening presented by Auckland Indymedia for 2003.
The Anitidote aims to be a regular forum for the exposure of
alternative political filmmaking and media art. For more information
contact
auckland@indymedia.org.
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