April 17- last day of our Collectively Made Film and Video series!
Posted April 17, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Our Friendships are Constructed on the Basis of Conflict: collectively produced film and video presented by Red Channels and Spectacle Theater:
Sunday, April 17
at Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street (between Bedford and Berry)
Brooklyn, NY
Sunday is the final day for our series- come join the marathon with us! Skip Blumberg of TVTV (and Videofreex) will be there to discuss Four More Years.
3PM program:
—Traveling with Hibakusha: Across Generations – Takashi Kunimoto, NDS, 2010
5PM program:
—Garbage – Newsreel, 1968, 10 minutes
—GIs Take Manhattan: Operation First Casualty – Meerket Media Collective, 2007, 5 minutes
—Anarchists Liberate the Deflating World – Glass Bead Collective, 2009, 9 minutes
—People’s Firehouse – Newsreel, 1979, 25 minutes
7PM program:
—Everything has been done – Azorro Group, 2003, 6 minutes
—Proto Media Primer – Raindance, 1970, 16 minutes
—Four More Years – TVTV, 1972, 61 minutes
—discussion with Skip Blumberg of TVTV
9PM program:
—Truth to Power- Glass Bead Collective, 2011, 7 minutes
—And the War Has Only Just Begun, Imaginary Party, 2001
—Get Rid of Yourself – Bernadette Corporation, 61 minutes- 2003
Program description:
3PM program:
—Traveling with Hibakusha: Across Generations – Takashi Kunimoto, NDS, 2010— This documentary focuses on the 'younger A-bomb survivors' (hibukusha) who experienced the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when they were babies or small children. They struggle with the frustration of wanting to tell their stories without having clear memories of the experience. A group of more than 100 hibukusha cruised around the world in 2008 in a project organized by nongovernmental organization Peace Boat to share their stories and make a plea to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. They meet other survivors of trauma during their voyage, including victims of the Vietnam War and the sole survivor of a Nazi massacre of a Greek village.
5PM program:
—Garbage – Newsreel, 1968, 10 minutes— During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers decide to use the situation to make a political statement. They collect garbage from the streets of their community and deposit piles of it on the grounds of Lincoln Center, "The Establishment's" cultural showcase.
—GIs Take Manhattan: Operation First Casualty – Meerket Media Collective, 2007, 5 minutes— Over Memorial Day weekend 2007, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War began Operation First Casualty. Simulating sniper fire and mass detentions on the streets of Manhattan, these antiwar veterans brought home a small piece of the Iraq War.
—Anarchists Liberate the Deflating World – Glass Bead Collective, 2009, 9 minutes— A film created for a three screen immersive installation. The No Borders protest in Copenhagen during COP15 United Nations Climate conference results in demonstrators liberating a huge advertising globe set up in front of the house of parliament by the Danish energy company.
—People’s Firehouse – Newsreel, 1979, 25 minutes— "We're making our point to the whole United States: you can fight the system; and win!" The Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn realized their community was under attack by the city bureaucracy: schools, hospitals, and other services has been closed or cut back and the neighborhood had begun to decay. The closing of the local firehouse was the last straw. They occupied the firehouse and began a campaign to win back fire protection and revitalize their neighborhood.
7PM program:
—Everything has been done – Azorro Group, 2003, 6 minutes— Members of the Azorro super-group meet to come up with an idea for a new art project. As the conversation progresses, however, it turns out that - just as it happens in art - all ideas have already been realized.
—Proto Media Primer – Raindance, 1970, 16 minutes— Raindance's Media Primers reflect the group's iconoclastic theories of television and video, and their engagement with alternative and mass media, pop culture and the counter-culture. The themes addressed — media manipulation, the camera's role in modifying individual behavior — illustrate their experimentation with the technological and conceptual underpinnings of 1/2-inch portable video. Paul Ryan's Proto Media Primer includes scenes of Abbie Hoffman awaiting the verdict from the Chicago 7 trial and ironic man-on-the-street interviews.
—Four More Years – TVTV, 1972, 61 minutes— The landmark documentary Four More Years is an iconoclastic view of the American electoral process, captured through TVTV's irreverent, candid coverage of Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign and the Republican Convention in Miami. Using lightweight 1/2-inch portable video equipment, the TVTV crew was able to plunge onto the Convention floor for a close-up, subjective view of the proceedings. Whether soliciting off-the-cuff analyses from Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, or making behind-the-scenes forays into the Nixon camp (with glimpses of the Young Republicans' maneuverings, the Nixonettes, and a fundraiser with Tricia and Julie Nixon), the spontaneity and wit of TVTV's coverage results in fascinating, unorthodox broadcast journalism.
Discussion with Skip Blumberg of TVTV
9PM program:
—Truth to Power- Glass Bead Collective, 2011, 7 minutes- In 2010, Glass Bead did a projection on the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. of photos of activists who have been scapegoated and arrested, accused of committing acts of "domestic terrorism".
- And the War Has Only Just Begun, Imaginary Party, 2001, 18 minutes- This Debord-esque tract features images of the burning Twin Towers and black bloc-ers with an omnipresent voice addressing all the lost children.
—Get Rid of Yourself – Bernadette Corporation, 61 minutes- 2003- Called an anti-documentary by its creators, this video combines footage of rioting at the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa with performances by Chloe Sevigny, Wemer von Delmont and more black bloc.
Collective bios:
NDS (Nakazaki-cho Documentary Space) is a group of documentarians, based in Kamagasaki Osaka, have been braving police harassment and repression to chart new territory at the intersection of filmmaking and community organizing. They have been documenting and participating urban struggles around labor, urban development, and housing issues. On April 4, 2011 NDS members were arrested in a recent wave of repression against day laborers in Osaka, their studio was raided and all of their video was seized. Find out more here.
Raindance- Founded in 1969 by Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan, Michael Shamberg and Ira Schneider, Raindance was an influential media collective that proposed radical theories and philosophies of video as an alternative form of cultural communication. The name "Raindance" alluded to what members termed "cultural R & D" (research and development). Influenced by the communications theories of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller, the collective produced tapes and writings, including the journal Radical Software, that explored the relation of cybernetics, media and ecology.
TVTV- Originally organized to provide alternative news coverage of the 1972 Republican and Democratic Presidential Conventions in Miami, Top Value Television, known as TVTV was an ad hoc collective of videomakers that defined the radical video documentary movement of the 1970s, known as "guerrilla television." TVTV subverted conventions of television news and documentary reportage with its alternative journalistic techniques, countercultural principles and pioneering use of portable, low-tech video equipment.
Newsreel- Established in December 1967 as an activist filmmaker collective, this NY group grew to become a network with chapters across the US. Its different chapters produced and distributed short 16mm films covering the anti-war and women's movements, Civil and human rights movements, getting unique access to such groups as the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party. The New York Newsreel became Third World Newsreel (TWN) in the mid-70s and strengthened its commitment to developing filmmakers and audiences of color. Today, TWN carries on the progressive vision of its founders, and remains the oldest media arts organization in the U.S. devoted to cultural workers of color and their global constituencies.
Meerkat Media Collective is a self-organized community of makers committed to creating innovative and thought-provoking film and new media. Inspired by the communal nature of meerkats, they value shared authorship and consensus process in their day-to-day operations as well as in their artistic endeavors. Under a cooperative model, members give creative and administrative time to the collective in exchange for material and non-material support. They share skills, equipment and ideas with a firm belief that a healthy, inclusive process is as important as crafting quality work.
Bernadette Corporation- Since 1994, the anonymous, international group of artists known as Bernadette Corporation has explored strategies of cultural resistance and détournement, appropriating contemporary entertainment modes for their own experimental purposes. From the New York-based BC fashion label, which garnered a cult following in the 1990s, and the magazine Made In USA, launched in 1999, to the collectively-authored novel Reena Spaulings (Semiotexte, 2005) and videos starring the likes of Sylvère Lotringer and Chloe Sevigny, Bernadette Corporation's interventionist projects amount to a precisely-calibrated critique of a global culture that constructs identity through consumption and branding.
Glass Bead Collective, based in New York City, brings together individuals from diverse academic and professional backgrounds including video art, film, theater, architecture, photography, music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy to create works which re-contextualize culture and the world in which we find ourselves today.
Azorro- Before joining together in 2001, Polish artists Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojtek Niedzielko, Łukasz Skąpski, each gained individual recognition. As a group, they bring together diverse skills in installation, objects, performance, photography, painting, and video arts. Azorro questions modes of artistic production, and the condition of the artist in contemporary world dominated by the art market through their satirical works.
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