Film programme preview
3 rooms, 23 film blocks, over 60 titles
Author: Gerbrand Oudenaarden
Here's a preview of the films screening programme, composed by the cinema editorial board of Next 5 Minutes 4.
This programme will be integrated with the interactive master programme schedule on this site.
FRIDAY SEPT 12
Melkweg Cinema
17:00 - 18:30 italian activism
DISOBBEDIENTI
Oliver Ressler, Austria and Italy, 2002, 54’, mini dv
The video ”Disobbedienti” thematizes the Disobbedienti’s origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement.
The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001.
SUPERVIDEO G8
Candida TV, Italy, 2001, 36’, mini DV
History cannot be written by only one pen.
SuperVideo, "mutant" hero of free communication, looks for the truth
collecting voices togheter. He collects informations, snatchs signals,
records choruses.
Angry and calm voices, scared or clear, passioned or disappointed.
It's the multitude that observed and animated the days of the protest of
Genoa.
20:00 22:00 Political Protest 3
TEORÍA DE LAS NACIONES
José Luis Tirado, Spain, 2:30’
A critical comment on the concept of democracy and it’s incarnation in contemporary society as well as on the concept of nation. And a parody of electoral propaganda.
BERLUSCONI’S MOUSETRAP
Indymedia Ireland, 120’
This is a two hour video-documentary made by people from
Indymedia Ireland, about the protests against the G8 conference in Genoa,
Italy in the summer of 2001. One of the interesting aspects of the
documentary is that activists look back at their own actions in Genoa, and
conclude that often they played the exact role the police wanted them to
play.
23:00 - 00:30 tactical technologies 3
Real TV , UK, 3:50 ’, VHS
TV Jamming out of a compost toilet. In three and a half minutes it becomes clear that
it’s possible to treat your neighbours to a television program that differs from what they were expecting. During real TV the best episode of Eastenders is interrupted by an Undercurrents program. All it takes is a compost toilet ,a transmitter and an antenna.
LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD!
(Nek se cuje i nas glas!)
Krsto Papic, Croatia, 1970, 18’, dvd
Pirate radio stations in rural north croatia were being set up as DIY constructions by peasants.
HIPPIES FROM HELL
Ine Poppe, NL, 2002, 53', MinDV
Hippies from Hell are a group of hackers, techies, artists, writers and puzzlers. In the eighties they published hacker magazine Hacktic and in 1993 they started the first Dutch Internet-provider, xs4all, thus opening the Internet for the general public. Apart from this they throw wild parties and organize open-air hacker festivals, using the Internet as their social platform. In the film artists play with hardware, young hippies hack their school-calculators, lock pickers open locks without a key: hacking is not just fooling around with technology, it is an attitude, an activity, a verb.
01:00 - 02:30 THX1138
George Lucas, VS, 1971, 95', 16mm
George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people.
De Balie, Grote Zaal
19:00 - 20:30 global conflicts 2
FROZEN WAR
John Smith, UK, 2002, 11
A spontaneous response to the bombing of Afghanistan triggered by a
disorientating experience in an Irish hotel room.
WHITE BALANCE
François Bucher, 2002, 32'
White Balance (to think is to forget differences) is an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks
AFTERMATH
GNN, VS, 2002, 35'
Narrated by Hip Hop legend Paris and featuring interviews shot by GNN syndicate producers in six cities, AFTERMATH features nine (9) people answering eleven (11) of the most pressing questions that emanate from the terrible and, as yet, unexplained, events of that day. As you will see, these are questions that continue to overshadow and critically challenge the official 'version' of the story.
21:00 - 22:30 WITNESS: Empowering Human Rights Defenders Through Video
90’ WITNESS (www.witness.org) trains and supports grassroots human rights groups to use video in their advocacy campaigns. This presentation will feature recent works from WITNESS's human rights partner organizations around the world - including BOOKS NOT BARS, on the growth of the prison industry in the U.S., and NO PLACE TO GO, on villagers driven from their homes by the Burmese military, as well as RULE OF THE GUN IN SUGARLAND on indigenous rights and impunity in the Philippines, and an excerpt from the documentary OPERATION FINE GIRL: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone, which investigates the strategic use of rape against women during the decade-long war in Sierra Leone. It will be followed by a Q&A with WITNESS program staff.
23:00 - 00:30 Surveillance and Control
REICHSTAG
Dmitry Vilensky, Russia, 2003, 6’, mini dv
The film was taken in the Reichstag's Dome - one of the main sights of Berlin, a place where shooting photos and video is officially allowed. Vilensky invited Frau Grunewald to visit this place. She is widely known in Berlin, due to her strange appearance and because she constantly works in the underground where she sells passengers her texts and asks for a donation. He asked her to walk with him under the dome, a symbol of German democracy, and explain what she thinks about power. After 2 minutes and 50 seconds they were stopped by security guards and forced to quit shooting and leave the building.
WELCOME TO NEW YORK
Norman Cowie, USA, 2002, 26’
WELCOME TO NEW YORK is an experimental documentary on the influence of a conservative think tank, the Manhattan Institute, on New York during the 1990s, and the response of citizens to the corporate-friendly policies of the Giuliani administration. It also offers a glimpse at the resurgent conservatism of the post 9/11 era in the U.S. With text, music, found footage and interviews, the tape is an irreverent essay on a neoliberal vision of urban life that has been marketed throughout the world.
REMOTE FRISKING
Andy Weir, UK, 2003, 7’, mini dv
Border crossings. The movement of a body through technologies of biopolitical administration. Breath and flesh that must prove its innocence at every turn / the decoration of transitional architecture/ a stopped heart.
IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE
Deborah Stratman, USA, 2002, 33’, 16 mm
Images of suburban surveillance and violence that push up against the limits of the real.
An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness