[matilda] Film Listings: Sheffield Indymedia Alt.Doc.Fest 2

Helen and Nick slendermeans1 at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Nov 20 17:28:40 GMT 2005


Hello!
 
 Thanks to everyone who came down to the pre-film fest night out. It was a cool night, with 70 watching the films at one point!! Well tasty mexican food was served by the matilda cafe collective.
 
 Here's an email with the full festival line up for this Thursday onwards - times and some info on the wide range of films we are showing.
 
 To get things looking sparkling for the weekend and lessen the amount to do on Thursday setting up, I am planning to be cleaning/tidying, re-arranging stuff and making signs this Tuesday evening from about 5pm, if anybody is about to help me. I will be signing up volunteers to help at the fest at the meeting on Monday. Thanks to those who have already offered their help in advance.
 
 Helene
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 24th-26th November
 Sheffield Indymedia Alt.Doc.Fest 2
 Films From the Frontlines
 @Matilda Social Centre, Matilda Street, Sheffield
 
 FILM LISTINGS NOW AVAILABLE @
 www.sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/docfest
 
 THURSDAY: LOUDER THAN BOMBS
 
 6.30pm Spreading Propaganda (45 mins)
 7.30pm Don't Need You (40 mins)
 8.30pm Well Done Now Sod Off (1 hour 30 mins)
 10.15pm Storming Sarajevo (30 mins)
 
 FRIDAY: RESISTANCE
 
 6pm Won't Get Fooled Again (43 mins)
 7pm Trading Freedoms (55 mins)
 8.15pm The Take (1 hour 30 mins)
 10pm The Yes Men (1 hour 15 mins)
 
 SATURDAY AFTERNOON: FOREVER WAR?
 
 2pm This is Camp X-Ray (1 hour 15 mins)
 3.30pm The Sun Doesn't Shine On the Camp (35 mins)
 4.15pm Weapons of Mass Deception (1 hour 15 mins)
 5.30pm Woomera (24 mins)
 
 SATURDAY EVENING: DIRECT ACTION GIVES SATISFACTION
 
 7pm Jill Phipps (30 mins)
 7.45pm G8 Newsreel (1 hour 15 mins)
 9.30 SchNews at Ten - The Movie (1 hour 15 mins)
 10.45 A few shorts including new Clown Army film.
 
 
 THE FRONTLINE FILMS
 
 THURSDAY: LOUDER THAN BOMBS
 
 Spreading Propaganda
 Entartete Kunst
 45 minutes
 Entartete Kunst is an anarchist electro label from San Francisco that releases political electronic music that fuses low and high brow culture (think dark, slow hip-hop with Noam Chomsky samples) into a potent status-guo challenging mix. This film offers an intimate look at the artists on this label and their radical views of America through their eyes. Provactive and stimulating, this documentary features a gritty EK soundtrack.
 
 Don't Need You
 Kerri Koch
 40 minutes
 This much sought after documentary charts the origins of the 1990's Riot Grrrl movement through interviews with those involved. Riot Grrrls were unapologetic and in-your-face- activists who acted out against domination and refused to play by anyone's rules but their own. They created a global network that reclaimed music and zine culture and saved many a young woman in the early 19090's. Features interviews with Jen Smith from Bratmobile, Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill (now Le Tigre).
 
 Well Done. Now Sod Off
 1 hour 30 minutes
 A potted and often hilarious history of Chumbawamba. Footage and interviews from the last two decades retrace their early days of communal living and involvement in the 1884-85 miner's strike to the survival of the Thatcher years and the media barrage of the 90's. The Chumbas emerge as a band of anarchist shoplifting pranksters, loved and loathed in equal measures but still an ongoing punk saga, a radical statement in a sea of conservative manufactured bands.
 
 Storming Sarajevo
 Desert Storm Soundsystem
 30 minutes
 It's 1994 and shortly after the Criminal Justice Bill became law in the UK, the Desert Storm free party collective decide to head for Bosnia. Aiming to bring humanitarian aid aswell as throwing free parties the collective survive vehicle problems, subzero temperatures and relentless snow to bring the noise and humanity back to Sarajevo.
 
 FRIDAY: RESISTANCE
 
 Won't Get Fooled Again
 Pilton Video
 43 minutes
 When the G8 leaders came to Scotland in July, seasoned activists and concerned individuals were ready for them. Prepared to take to the streets, and make their demands heard, they gave the eight leaders at Gleneagles the welcome they deserved. This arresting and compelling film interspersed with personalised video diaries and reportage from young people, smashed the myth of apathy and lethargy in the younger generation, and presents a youth - orientated account of one of the most significant weeks in Scotland's current history. Against a background of escalating and menacing police presence - a surreal quality enhanced by a Rebel Clown Army - it shows their mature and articulate views about poverty, African debt, global warming, free trade, holy Bob Geldof and the supposed "Lennon and McCartney of international debt relief - Brown and Blair!!
 
 Trading Freedom: The Secret Life of The FTAA
 Indymedia (Quebec)
 54 minutes
 An inspiring film offering an explanation of the FTAA and what it will mean for the people of the American continent, and how they are resisting it.  This film has it all - indigenous struggles, working class resistance, women against free trade, media activism and the state repression of dissent. Includes footagge from Chiapas, Sao paulo, Quebec City and elsewhere. The combined efforts of over 100 videographers, photographers, free radio outlaws, writers, editors and rabble rousers.
 
 The Take 
 Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
 1 hour 30 minutes
 In the wake of the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina, Latin Americas most properous middle class find themselves in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass rising unemployment. In suburban Buenos Aires, 30 auto-workers decide to collectively take over their abandoned and idle factory.  Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis takes the viewers into the lives of the workers as they meet globalisation head on and reclaim their work, lives and dignity.
 
 The Yes Men
 Dan Olman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith 
 1 hour 15 minutes
 A couple of corporate activist-pranksters impersonate organisations such as the WTO not only at conferences but on TV aswell. Setting up a parody WTO website leads them further into the global corporate world as invites flood in from unsuspecting institutions. Follow Andy and Mike as they satirize global free trade to ridiculous extremes while the experts seem to agree to every crazy idea the couple can come up with. 
 
 SATURDAY AFTERNOON: FOREVER WAR?
 
 This is Camp X-Ray 
 Damien Mahoney and the UHC Collective
 1 hour 15 minutes
 Following in the tradition of performance art, 'Camp X-Ray', a hard hitting political art installation is placed within the centre of Manchester. A fully operational life size replica of the U.S. internment camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. set out to challenge our apathy over the prisoners held there, this documentary covers the artists and activists involved and local people's opinions on the installation and its impacting message visually and psychologically. Includes a Mosside family visiting who's brother is in camp XRay.
 
 The Sun Doesn't Shine in The Camp
 Balata Campaign
 35 minutes
 30,000 Palestinian residents live in the Balata refugee camp. Between December 2003 and March 2004 the Israelis invaded the camp. The whole population were placed under 24-hour home imprisonment for a four week period without access to food, supplies or medical services. The residents resisted the invasion by breaking the curfew and stoning military vehicles. Contains some incredible footage.
 
 Weapons of Mass Deception
 Danny Schechter
 1 hour 15 minutes
 An analysis of the media's biased coverage of the Iraq war and the deception committed by the media with its armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. The indepth analysis raises some startling question regarding not only the coverage of the war but in some cases promoting it. Schechter is a media insider turned outsider as he explores the global media marathon deception.
 
 Woomera Breakout
 Ska TV
 24 minutes
 During Easter 2002, activists from around Australia converged upon the Woomera Detention Centre to protest the mandatory detention of refugees. Activists coordinated with the detainees protests from within the detention centre resulting in a mass breakout of 50 refugees. Most were returned but 11 achieved freedom. This incident led to an awareness of the Australian governments detention policies.
 
 SATURDAY EVENING: DIRECT ACTION GIVES SATISFACTION
 
 Jill's Film
 30 minutes
 An inspiring and beautiful film about the life and tragic death of animal liberation activist, Jill Phipps. The film tells the life story of this incredibly dedicated activist, while weaving in the history and achievements of the animal rights movement in the UK, and the wider social and political issues and movements of the time.  A personal window to the often hidden history of resistance movements.
 
 G8 2005 European Newsreel
 Indymedia
 1 hour 15 minutes
 A round-up of the actions against the G8 meeting in Scotland this summer. Follow the clowns, the street parties and the action to stop the G8.
 
 SchNEWS At Ten - The Movie
 Schnews
 1 hour 15 minutes
 Charting the early days of resistance to the Criminal Justice Bill through to recent actions in London - it's a decade of party and protest covering the history of Schnews and its coverage of direct action and free parties. Marvel at how good for nothing lazy anarchists have got it together and kept it together for the last ten years.
 
 
 Matilda Cafe
 Fancy taking a break from film watching? Then why not hang out upstairs from the film room in the lovely matilda cafe? The matilda cafe collective will be serving food and snacks throughout the festival. There will be a hot meal, snacks including pitta breads, salad and spreads, pakora, cakes and popcorn, and maybe more!!
 All kinds of hot and cold drinks available 'til late!
 
 Hacklab
 Can't keep away from checking email??? Matilda has a "hacklab", that is a suite of internet connected recycled computers using free software. Feel free to drop in and surf, and check out the free (and better!) alternatives to the microsoft empire!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


		
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