~ IRENE ~ SCREEN ~ IRENE ~ SCREEN ~ IRENE ~ IRENE and SPACESTATION present an evening of make-u-laff archival social guidance cinema and illegal collage film art (plus!).
~ wednesday 18 december 8:30 pm ~ Irene Community Warehouse, 5 pitt st. brunswick MAP: http://www.spacestation.org.au/whois/whereis.php3 featuring : PERVERSION FOR PROFIT (USA. 1964, 30 min.) US anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization. Sponsor: Citizens for Decent Literature, Inc. (Cincinnati, Ohio). 30mins ARE YOU POPULAR? (USA. 1947, 10 min.) One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films, with examples of "good" and "bad" girls, proper and improper dating etiquette, courtesy to parents, and an analysis of what makes some people popular and others not. A scream and a sobering document of postwar conformity. 8 BITS OR LESS (Patrick Lichty, 2001, 5 min.) is a journey into covert video. explores the society of the spectacle, hungry pets, and alien abduction. visuals produced entirely from 8-bit Casio WristCam watch-camera. presented in gloriously dodgy real video format. GIMME THE MERMAID (Negativland and Tim Maloney. 2002, 5 min.) A new short from the band Negativland, with help from Disney animator Tim Maloney, who created this using his employer's equipment after hours. "Mermaid" combines the sound of a music industry lawyer with the voice of the Little Mermaid and Negativland's helium-tinged cover of Black Flag's "Gimme Gimme Gimme." SPIN (Brian Springer. 1995, 60 min.) Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality. STATE OF THE UNION (Brian Boyce. 2001, 2 min.) San Francisco-based artist Brian Boyce brilliantly combines unauthorized CNN footage of George W. Bush with digitally manipulated clips from The Teletubbies. FAIR USE (Paul Harvey Oswald. 2002, 2 min.) Paul Harvey Oswald, a collective based in Rockford, Illinois, has been creating video collages since 1994. "Fair Use," by Doug Connell, explains the group's philosophy of cutting up soundbites and film clips for the sake of parody. OSAMA VIAGRA (Jeane Poole, 2001 (TBC)) George W Bush can't get it up without Osama Viagra. RTMark. BRINGING IT TO YOU! (RTMark, 2002, 11 min.) Corporations are persons, and have been for over a century. Since 1886, when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them full constitutional rights, corporations have used their wealth and power to subvert democracy and its processes. Now, with this video, you can learn how the same inalienable rights that corporations have stolen over the years are used by �TMark... to bring anti-corporate sabotage into the public marketplace. plus! in dodgy quicktime: BEAUTY KIT (PLEIX Collective. 4 min.) Series of four advertisements for plastic surgery kits intended for young girls. This openly serious and seductive project plays with the limits of ambiguity. A combination of neat graphics and harmonized colors intensify the duplicity of formal and sense. PLAID ITSU VIDEO CLIP (PLEIX Collective. 4 min.) This work constitutes a kind of parable of our consumer society and its hysteria. PLEIX collective adopts a visual language that blurs relationship with reality and provokes a strange unease. This is a film for Plaid's track "Itsu" on Warp records. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IRENE is a self-managed community arts warehouse in brunswick. www.irene.org.au SPACESTATION MEDIA LAB is a skill-sharing / guerilla arts / activist media node situated in Irene. www.spacestation.org.au BOTH need money and your interest to stay alive. this screening is of benefit to both. MOST of the videos are available on request in CD format to take home, all for the price of a CD, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
