[Peace-discuss] Lost Film Festival - more info for co-sponsoring

[Linda Evans]

More info on the Lost Film Festival.  We discussed
co-sponsoring this event last Sunday and we need to
make a decision this Sunday.  Carl and others asked
for more info.  Please see www.lostfilmfest.com.  

This is copied from the somewhat lengthy proposal sent
to the U of I.  

Linda

Lost Film Festival is proactive in encouraging the
integration of new technologies into mediamaking. The
touring program projects the pieces using a 2000 lumen
XGA video projector, combined with DVD, miniDV, and
VHS players (when appropriate.) The full program is a
very quick 3 hours long, including a 30-minute
intermission.  DVD and VHS copies of some of the films
will be available at the screening for institutional
and/or private sale.

The screening program is hosted by Festival Director
and co-founder Scott Beibin who runs the punk music
label Bloodlink Records, and is a Co-Producer of the
film Godass (dir. Esther Bell), winner of ‘Best
Feature’ New York Underground Film Festival 2000 and
Chicago Underground Film Festival 2000. [Godass
currently airs on the Sundance Channel, BBC4, and
Showtime.] He has also been a featured panelist at
South By Southwest, Sundance, CMJ, and Slamdance. With
10 years in the business of independently produced
music and film, Beibin intersperses the touring
program of shorts with shared tales and anecdotes
about the films and filmmakers, while offering
essential and practical information for the
festival-bound. He also provides thought-provoking
commentary on social issues raised in the films, such
as globalization, racism, and homophobia. 

Crowd Bites Wolf | (Guerrillavision) 20 min
Featuring protest footage censored by the mainstream
press. The World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund met in Prague during late September 2000. The
bureaucrats were greeted by a color-coded
insurrectionist army, massed to monkeywrench the
meeting using a variety of direct action tactics.
Despite an unprecedented police mobilization, a united
resistance on the streets prevailed.

Eye of the Storm | (Raphael Lyon) 15 min
A powerful rough cut of the in-progress documentary.
The film covers the rise of argentina.indymedia.org as
the popular source of news in Argentina.

Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade | 6 min
Now, for the first time ever, the hidden prophecies of
J.R.R. Tolkien's classic epic, The Lord of the Rings,
are decoded in this accurate re-edit of Peter
Jackson's blockbuster motion picture. Unbeknownst to
many readers, The Lord of the Rings - once thought to
be merely a story of archetypal struggle between good
and evil - has been found to contain astute prophetic
messages about the impending crisis of capitalist
modernity. Hado i philinn! 
"Mordor is in our midst." - J.R.R. Tolkien 

The Horribly Stupid Stunt Which Has Resulted In His
Untimely Death | (The Yes Men) 16 min
An international law conference writes to Gatt.org
inviting WTO Director-General Michael Moore to present
at their forum in Austria. Big mistake: It turns out
the cyber-squatted site is run by the Yes Men, a
loose-knit group of anti-capitalist culture jammers
who regularly orchestrate pranks against economic and
government institutions.




Lego Trilogy | (Rob Weychert) 12 min 
Three Lego tales told by Bredstik Comedy Troupe's Rob
Weychert:
(SIEGE ON THE CORPORATE IDENTITY PLANT): Militants
infiltrate a businessman factory producing homogenized
workers, and leave a bomb behind.  
(HEAT PART 2)  New Jersey is threatened with
accelerated global warming. The government’s solution=
Blow up the sun. 
(TWELVE BUCKS) A scathing examination: what are you
really doing for 12 bucks an hour? 

Lords of the Chain Ring | (Adam Katzman/Zach Lihatch)
7 min
Bikepunk warriors put on their jockstraps, stuff their
underwear, and ride their tall bikes to avenge an
attack on a fellow biker by a four-wheeled gas
guzzling beast. Epic metal makes the soundtrack to
this battle between two wheels and four wheels. 

Piefight '69 | (Sam Green/ Christian Bruno) 8 min
Unearthed footage lost since 1969 of the notorious
'pie-fight' incident at the San Francisco Film
Festival. Two dozen costumed radicals descend on the
fancy black tie & red carpet festival with one fully
laden pie truck and six cameras in order to wreak
havoc.

Punk Rock Archives: Social Distortion | (CTV) 20 min
doc
CNN can only aspire to be as sensationalistic as this
piece. In 1988 a Canadian program of “investigative
journalism” aired “Social Distortion”, a Reefer
Madness-style expose that scrutinized the 'threatening
lifestyles' of punk rockers. With a straight face,
they claim that North American cities are being
overtaken by cults of satanic punk street gangs. They
attempt to prove their point by interviewing the
founder of “Back in Control” (a right wing religious
organization), with counterpoints from a 16-year-old
suburban kid with a mohawk named “Razor”. There's a
laugh every five seconds, as the startling
"journalistic" conclusions sound more like the
clueless punchlines they are. 

Sean Connery Golf Project | (Sara Rimensnyder/Rhys
Southan) 16 min
The infamous and controversial documentary film,
subject of a current lawsuit, in which two young
down-on-their-luck filmmakers infiltrate Sony Pictures
studios, steal a screenplay, rewrite it, and return it
as a better script. The punchline is that the hijacked
script almost went into production before anyone was
the wiser. Oops!

State Of The Union | (Bryan Boyce) 2 min 
In this clever animation, Brian Boyce combines C-SPAN
footage of George W. Bush with clips from The
Teletubbies while describing US foreign policy through
strong metaphor.

S-11 (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse | (Guerrilla
News Network) 12 min
Culled from over 20 hours of television footage
recorded over a one month period and across 13
networks, S-11 Redux is a sound-bite blitzkrieg that
challenges the messages we have been fed from our
mainstream media and the government it serves. Be
warned - this video moves quickly and will require at
least two viewings to digest its full impact. You may
never be able to look at the coverage of S-11 and its
post-impact coverage the same way ever again.
www.gnn.tv

Terror, Iraq, Weapons | (Mike Nourse) 3 min
In the most hilarious way, Mike Nourse deconstructs a
broadcast speech by George W. Bush illustrating how
simple word repetition is used as propaganda. Watch as
the American President alerts the world to the threat
of Islam’s "Nuclear Holy Warriors" and uses the word
"Iraq" as 3 parts of speech in the same sentence.
Think Jimmy Stewart meets Josef Goebbels.

Unhappy Meal | (John R / Greg R) 6 min
"Unhappy Meal", shot on digital video and film is a
multi-media assault that takes a critical and
disturbing look at the McDonald's and consumer
culture. R room's visual and graphical styles come
together in one of their wildest videos yet, featuring
their very own Evil Ronald. Unhappy Meal is a hard
hitting and humorous visual metaphor intertwined with
the twisted breakbeats of Patootihed. It explores all
evils of the fast food giant which opens 2000
franchises a year. This is an average of one every
five minutes. Your street may be next.

Some of the films are available for institutional
and/or private sale. 
Lost Film Fest vhs/dvd vol 1: 
Gigi From 9-5 + Lego Trilogy + Maryland 355 + Anarchy
in LA + Crowd Bites Wolf  

Lost Film Fest vhs/dvd vol 2: 
Piefight 69 + The Manipulators + Sean Connery Golf
Project + Anarchy Carpet + The Horribly Stupid
Stunt...

Lost film Festival  + www.lostfilmfest.com

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Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether if is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. ... Racism, economic deprival, dogfighting and cockfighting, bullfighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence ... only when we have become non violent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves. Cesar Chavez, 1927-93 (letter, 12/90)








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