*** please cross post!!***
GLOBAL INSIGHTS, Australia's most inspiring screen
event, is set to return for 2001.
Whether it's independent media collectives pulling
together footage from 30 camcorders at a giant
action against the World Bank, a protester filming her
comrade destroy the control room of a military
helicopter, or media satirists creating 'anti-ads' to
send up the corporate media's banality and bias,
Global Insights has showcased the best of activist
video from around the world for the last four years.
Since GLOBAL INSIGHTS 3, the world has seen an
amazing explosion of new media activism - as well as
the growing interest from mainstream television
outlets in this kind of material. Is it an attempt to
reinvigorate a sterile and artificial tv culture, or
just because it's cheap to purchase? Just file it under
'reality tv'...
Meanwhile GLOBAL INSIGHTS remains a grass-roots
means of screening and distributing this kind of
material. In this year's Global Insights:
o the growth of the global protest movement
(including footage from Quebec, Prague, Genoa and
Gothenburg);
o alternative media's take on the events in
New York on September 11 and the subsequent
"war on terrorism" including a look into US
complicity in funding terrorism and the
possibilities of a peaceful solution,
o the 'no borders' refugee movement and
border actions in Europe.
and much more...
DATE: THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER
TIME: 7.30PM BAR OPENS AT 7PM
PLACE: PUBLIC LECTURE THEATRE, MELBOURNE
UNIVERSITY, OLD ARTS BUILDING
COST: $7/$9
FOOD: BY GRASSLANDS
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