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Film Screenings

All three main festival locations (Balie, Melkweg, Paradiso) are equipped with superb screening facilities and spaces for film and video in various formats. For the festival special cinema programs have been compiled that will bring together experimental artistic productions, do-it-yourself documentaries, local media productions from around the globe, and political cinema. These thematic programs seek in part a connection with the thematic threads in the festival program.

Programme Items

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.

Melkweg Cinema
20:00 22:00 Political Protest 3

TEORÃA DE LAS NACIONES
JosÃ© 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.

Melkweg Cinema
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.

Melkweg Cinema
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
FranÃ§ois 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.

De Balie, Grote Zaal
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.

De Balie, Grote Zaal

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 hollownessâ¦ an emptiness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. This is a new genre of horror movie, attempting suburban locations as states of mind.

NOW LET US PRAISE AMERICAN LEFTISTS
Paul Chan, USA, 2000, 2:30'
Now Let Us Praise American Leftists is an experimental video animation
that seeks to eulogize and ridicule the American leftist movement of the
past century. Foregrounding the exclusionary nature of American leftist
politics, and its persistent refusal to allow more diversity in terms of
race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation to enter into the larger political
daialogue, the video presents representations of American leftists as they
are: men with mustaches, created using FACESâ¢âa computer application used by North American law enforcement agencies to create composite pictures of criminals and suspects for wanted posters.

SAFE DISTANCE
US AIR Force/ kuda.org, New Media Center, Novi Sad, 21'
Safe Distance is a video that was recorded during nato air strikes
against former Yugoslavia. The videotape shows the head up display of the US AIR
Force plane. There were 4 airplanes flying from a NATO-base in Italy
to a destination in Yugoslavia. Their mission objective was to bomb several
targets in the area around the city of Novi Sad. On the way back, after the
mission was completed, the plane was shot. This tape (sony video 8) was found
near the crashed plane in Fruska Gora mountain in Srem region. It shows
the head up display with basic graphical interface and voice communication
between pilots..

VIDEOLABYRINTH
Toni Serra, Spain and Morocco, 1999, 12', beta sp
"Pirate Utopias and European Renegade Archives" presents a silent report on CCTVs - security cameras. A catalogue of tragedies and ideas for the future.

De Balie, Kleine Zaal
21:00 - 22:30 Individual Tactics

TONI B., SQUATTING LAND IN RIO
(Vulgo Sacopa)
AndrÃ© Reyes Novaes and Pedro Urano, Brazil, 2002, 26'
Toni B lives on the side of SacopÃ£ Hill, on the shores of the Lagoon, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro's South Zone. From there, he watches the world, people and himself, while he fights for ownership of the place where he lives, in the company of the works he creates. An universe where day to day occurrences inspire mythical narratives and contain conflicts which rule our process of development and urbanization.

WALKING OFF COURT
George Barber, GB, 2003, 10'
It is 10 mins long and concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time that a motorway was built right outside his house. He spent a lot of time aimlessly walking in circles around new roads and road works

VIDEOLETTERS - EMIL AND SA_A EPISODE
Eric van den Broek en Katarina Rejger, NL 2001, 23'
Dutch directors Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek focus on the Bosnian Muslim Emil, and the Bosnian Serb Sasa. The two were best friends for 16 years. The didn't see each other for more then 8 years. Via VideoLetters they explain each other what happened.

De Balie, Kleine Zaal
23:00 - 00:30 Commercial Strategies

THE DELMARVA CHICKEN OF TOMORROW
Andrea Luka Zimmerman, GB, 2002, 15'
Cannibalism has long been a favourite on western menus. Other peoples' cannibalism, that is. More than a colonial culinary oddity, it divided the men from the animals; the savagery of the conquistadors was projected onto their victims - after all, they, too, sported feathers

RE-CODE
US 2001, 15'
Re-Code.com was a short-lived satirical website that humorously showcased an inherent flaw in capitalist systems by exploiting a shortcoming in the ubiquitous bar-coding system used in a majority of retail stores

SAUCISSE
James Schneider, Fr, 5'
Wat kun je zien vanuit een worstkraampje?

WHAT ARE WE DOING TONIGHT?
Marie Vermeiren, Belgium, 2002, 7'
The film follows a group of women through the night while they undertake actions against the sexist advertisings. The film focuses on transmitting the energy that these women can develop: physical, creative or sensual.

INSTANT SALVATION
Myriam Thyes, Germany, 2002, 3', mini dv
A collage of quotations â image and sound - from the film 'Terminator 2 - Judgement Day' by James Cameron (1991), mixed with sentences out of the 4 gospels of the New Testament, spoken by a female voice. Thyes takes scenes from the film where Christian moral cliche's and myths of the saviour are shown, combines them with texts out of the bible, and interrupts them with product placements, shown in the same film.

CATCH US! IF YOU CAN
Production: kuda.org, New Media Center, Novi Sad, 10',
Catch us! if you can is video documentation of street action that was
made in Novi Sad and consists of statements and interviews made with ex
dealers of pirated CD ROM’s, and citizens of Novi Sad about a new law
that forbids any kind of piracy. Starting point of street action and
interviews with ex pirate dealers was the distribution of DivX, a new and
improved version of one of blockbuster movies in that period, "Catch me
if you can" by Stephen Spielberg.

MAGIC IN THE AIR
(Magia en el Aire)
Toni Serra and Joan Leandre, USA and Spain, 1999, 11', beta sp
USA 1942. The advent of a new religion: television.

A-CLIPS
Short( 40-120 sec.) political statements on big issues like power or capitalism, shot on video, tranfered to 35mm and screened hidden between commercials in ordinary cinema's. The idea originated in Berlin in 1997, but is spreading fast.

SATURDAY SEPT 13

Melkweg Cinema
12:30 - 14:00 Environment

IN SEARCH OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Nanette Danckaarts, NL, 2001, 11'
Scientists and locals give their side of the story about climate change during the
Climate conference in Marakech 2001.

Green Gold
Ell Southern & Heidi Bachram, 2003, 40'
This documentary investigates "Carbon Trading", the so-called "market friendly" solution to climate change. it was filmed during the time of the WSSD, World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg South Africa in august last year

Melkweg Cinema
14:00 - 17:00 Global Conflicts 3

Global Conflicts 3

WSB HASSAN SABBAH
Toni Serra and Joan Leandre, USA and Spain, 1999, 3', beta sp
A quotation of William S. Burroughs is given new meaning.

LOCAL (Mahali)
Imad Ahmed, Ismail Habash, Raed Al Helou, Palestine, 2002, 52', Beta SP
The three filmmakers, who work as TV news cameramen in Ramallah, are caught in their offices when the Israeli military occupies the city in March 2002. This film is a chronicle of the days they spent inside, under curfew, as the siege of Arafat's compound dragged on. It follows the mundane realities of trying to live under a military curfew with humor and dignity, and ends with their escape from the office.

SCENES FROM AN ENDLESS WAR
Norman Cowie, USA, 2002, 32'
Scenes from an endless war is an experimental documentary on militarism,
globalization, and the "war against terrorism." Part meditation, part
commentary, Scenes employs recontextualized commercial images, rewritten
news crawls, and original footage and interviews to question received
wisdom and common sense assumptions about current American policies.

ON BORDERS
Danielle Arbid, FR, 2002, 59'
"I spent four weeks, two days and a few hours circling a country that has two names : Israel and/or Palestine. I never once crossed the border. I watched the country through the eyes of those who look at it from the outside, fantasising, hating, loving. My film follows my wanderings. We are face to face with a country as intriguing as inaccessible.

Melkweg Cinema
17:00 - 20:00 Brazilian Screening

Graziela Kunsch will present videos from around 30 Brazilian
collectives [artists and activists] and also the work of some
individual artists. The videos reveal a retaking of the streets and other
public spaces by these collectives/ artists.
After-ratos, A.N.T.I. cinema [Sao Paulo], As 712 baratas [Rio de Janeiro]
Atelier 491 [Rio de Janeiro], Atrocidades Maravilhosas [Rio de Janeiro]
Bete vai a guerra [Sao Paulo], Bicicletada, C.M.I. - centro de midia independente
Confeiteiros sem fronteiras, Empreza [Goiania], Entorno [Brasilia], EspaÃ§o Coringa / Negrabilis [Sao Paulo], "GRUPO" [Belo Horizonte], Laranjas [Porto Alegre], Los Valderramas [Sao Paulo], Midia Tatica Brasil, MTAW - Movimento Terrorista Andy Warhol, Nucleo Performatico Subterranea, Phoder Paralelo [Rio de Janeiro), Poro [Belo Horizonte], Rejeitados, A revolucao nao sera televisionada [Sao Paulo], RRADIAL [Rio de Janeiro], Sid Moreira [Sao Paulo], Telephone colorido [Recife], Transicao Listrada [Fortaleza], Urucum [Macapa], Valmet [Goiania], Videohackers, ZOX 1999 [Sao Paulo].

Melkweg Cinema
21:00 - 22:30 Tactical Technologies 2

RETOOLING DISSENT
Street Rec Collective, USA, 2002, 20', vhs
Tactical mediaprojects during the World Economic Forum and protests in New York in March 2002.

OWNED
Jennifer Read, VS, 2002, 70'
Owned gives the viewer a glimpse into the elusive world of computer hacking. Tracing the history from the phone phreakers of the 1960s through the modern day computer hackers, it provides a face and a voice to the hacker handles and shows a diversity in the hacker community. We watch as a stereotypical hacker sits at his computer and hijacks web pages and also visit the Defcon convention in Las Vegas as hundreds of hackers gather to exchange information

Melkweg Cinema
23:00 - 00:30 Tactical Technologies 1

SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM
Craig Baldwin, 1999, 93', 16mm
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.

Melkweg Cinema
01:00 - 03:00 Fahrenheit 451
FranÃ§ois Truffaut, FR, 1966, 112', 16mm
From the Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper will burst into flame. Oskar Werner plays a fireman who does not put out fires, but who searches out books and burns them. Books make people unhappy. In a parody of social correctness, all discordant strains are removed. The world is a lonely one of separate people in which Werner begins to read the books before burning them.

De Balie, Grote Zaal
19:00 - 20:30 Political Protest 2

RADICAL TEEN CHEER
Eli Elliott, 2003, USA, 10', VHS ntsc
Eli Elliott's inspired portrait of Los Angeles high school students who boldly express their political views as cheerleaders. From cheers against third world country sweatshops to the hypocrisy of the United States government, Radical Teen Cheer shows a rare group of youths speaking out on issues in an interesting new form of political expression.

WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE
San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network , USA, 2003, 54', mini dv
What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot
aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation? The San Francisco Bay
Area Video Activist Network presents the story you won't see on Fox News:
an eye-popping, jaw-dropping look at the Bay Area's radical resistance to
an illegal war.

De Balie, Grote Zaal
21:00 - 22:30 Argentina (programma o.v.)

NI OUBLIE NI PARDON
GAC, Arg., 10'
On the ongoing struggle in search of the people who dissapeared during the militairy dictatorship

CONTROL OBRERO - LOS TRABAJADORES DE BRUKMAN
Contra Imagen & Grupo De Boedo Films, Arg.,, 2002 26'
The factory Brukman was founded in the thirties with German money. More than a year now, the factoryworkers occupy the place and stive for autonomy.

PIQUETE PUENTE PUEYRREDON
Indymedia Argentina/Proyecto ENERC, 2002, 35'
A huge demonstration on 26 of June 2002 where workers and unemployed people go on the streets ends in a rough and brutal repression and the dead of two of the unionleaders.

De Balie, Grote Zaal
23:00 - 00:30 Political Protest 1

THE HORRIBLY STUPID STUNT
The Yes Men, USA, 2001, 45', mini dv ntsc
"Come join the Yes Men as they deliver a deathly horrible lecture to a group of high-powered lawyers, who think they are listening to the World Trade Organization. The lawyers'shocking response drives The Yes Men to the depths of depravity, with stupid results."

GLOBALISATION AND THE MEDIA
Undercurrents, UK, 2003, 21', mini dv
Undercurrents explore how the media is involved in shaping public opinion during the âWar on Terrorism' and Globalisation. They offer a wide range of viewpoints from broadcasters, journalists, media activists, and news editors. Winner of One World film festival 2002.

THE SALiVATION ARMY
Scott Treleaven, Canada, 2001, 22', beta sp pal
A tale of blood, sex, spit, spunk & cult recruitment: for three years the Salivation Army operated a counterculture zine aimed at restless queer punk youth. But during their brief existence what began as a small, local gang transformed into an increasingly dangerous cult network. Part confessional, part recruitment drive. A vicious, erotic and instructional cut n' paste portrait of the underground.

De Balie, Kleine Zaal
17:00 - 19:00 Global Conflicts 1

MOTHER NATURE
Mike Stubbs, UK, 2003, 3â
In MOTHER NATURE, Zeke (Zeke Roberts from Hull) is seen chatting with his
mate Paddy close to his home about the impending war: a short, sharp,
vernacular assessment of the current realpolitik _ a corrective to the
general Newsnight gloss.

RE: THE_OPERATION
Paul Chan, USA, 2002, 27:30'
Based on a set of drawings that depict George W. Bush's administration as
wounded soldiers in the war against terrorism, RE:THE_OPERATION explores
the sexual and philosophical dynamics of war through the lives of the
members as they physically engage each other and the "enemy".

SEEING IS BELIEVING: HANDICAMS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEWS
Katerina Cizek, Peter Wintonick ,Canada, 2002, 52'
SEEING IS BELIEVING: HANDICAMS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEWS shows to what extent the camera has acquired a political and social function. Video images sparked off riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King incident. They sustain the trial against Milosevic, who has been charged with war crimes, in The Hague. They expose social abuses, accompany fund- raisers and set relief actions going.

De Balie, Kleine Zaal
19:30 - 22:30 Gregg Bordowitz Screening + Interview

FAST TRIP LONG DROP
Greg Bordowitz, VS, 1993, 54'
Activist and HIV-positive filmmaker Gregg Bordowitz addresses his gay and Jewish identities and explores the political dimensions of the AIDS crisis.

HABIT
Greg Bordowitz, VS, 2001, 53'
Habit (2001) is the name of Bordowitz's new video work. A sequel to his earlier work, Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993), Habit addresses contemporary AIDS activism and a historically specific autobiographical perspective on living with AIDS

De Balie, Kleine Zaal
23:00 - 00:30 Urban Displacement

PIGEON
Reggy Timmermans, Beatrijs Albers, B., 2002, 2'
The title says it all.

CULTURAL QUARTER
Mike Stubbs, UK, 2003, 10'
It is a perfect summer's day. From a bedroom window we gaze on a group of families enjoying themselves in their own recreation. Is th road they play in a public or private place? Who owns it? Are they aware they are being filmed?? Cultural Quarter presents the relationships of observation in the city to its citizens, whilst begging ethical questions on surveillance, the gaze and human behaviour. Within the very current phenomena of city marketing and âregeneration', Cultural Quarter exposes some of the gaps between developers' dreams and citizens' perceptions of what cultural space means and how to use it.

BOOM! THE SOUND OF EVICTION
San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network, USA, 2002, 60'
BOOM explores the relationships between the dot-com boom (and bust) and community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the largely working class and Latino Mission District. By turns humorous and scathing, Boom delves into the ironies and contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique that is ambitious in its scope while remaining close to the human scale.

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
Laurie Petrou, Canada, 2003, 8'
This video is a response to the notion that machine aesthetics can be read and were read as a metaphor for the fascist politic. It draws on research involving the Futurists, icons, army formations, language and aesthetics of the National Socialists, as well as examination of the functions and semiotics of machinery.

Buitenland Campsite (drijf-in cimema)
0:00 - 02:00 The man who fell to earth
Nicolas Roeg,
Location: Nieuwe Meer Amsterdam
Bring a boat and an FM radio

SUNDAY SEPT 14

Melkweg Cinema

12:30 - 14:00 Commercial Strategies
herhaling

14:00 - 16:00 Global Conflicts 2
herhaling

17:00 - 18:30 Political Protest 2
herhaling

Paradiso, Grote Zaal
19:00 - 21:30h

MAQUILA: A TALE OF TWO MEXICOS
Saul Landau, 1999, 55' mini DV ntsc
The corporate globalisation process on the US-Mexican border, the so-called 'new' Mexico, is contrasted with the traditional Mayan civilization in Chiapas. Since the uprising of the Zapatistas, Chiapas is constantly disturbed by motorized army convoys that trespass on Indian villages.

STORM FROM THE MOUNTAIN: THE ZAPATISTA'S TAKE MEXICO CITY
Big Noise, The Chiapas Media Project, Paper Tiger TV, USA/Mexico, 2001, 72'
Part I: Coverage of the Zapatista Caravan out of the jungles of Chiapas towards Mexico City. Part II: The Zapatista's entrance into the Mexico City's Zocalo in the footsteps of Emiliano Zapata.