[Peace] Lost Film Festival at Allen Hall this Thursday!

[Haber, Laura]

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LOST FILM FESTIVAL comes to Allen Hall!

The Lost Film Festival, a traveling showcase of truly independent (read:
anti-corporate) film based in West Philadelphia, presents the Dangerous
Media program, with special guest speaker Scott Beibin, Festival Director
Lost Film Festival/owner Bloodlink Records 

Thursday, September 23 
Allen Hall Main Lounge, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
8:00pm
Free!
Contact Laura Haber 244-2317 for more information.

www.lostfilmfest.com


About Lost Film Festival:

LOST FILM FEST HACKS HOLLYWOOD

West Philadelphia's Lost Film Festival hits Urbana with its' Dangerous Media
Tour. The new program features scathing and hilarious social commentary from
North America and beyond in the form of narrative shorts, documented pranks,
and hot amateur protest footage from around the world.

Festival director Scott Beibin spins the films in the same way a house DJ
spins records, and narrates with amusing anecdotes and behind the scenes
information about the films. Lost Film Fest, sports a strong guerrilla
aesthetic. Its' indigenous environs are squats, clubs, warehouses, &
rooftops, but regularly appears at theaters and universities as it's gained
enormous popularity throughout the years amongst young people. Many of the
iconoclastic filmmakers featured in the program make use of Digital Video
and Non-Linear editing, producing low to no-budget masterpieces. Their films
intentionally fly under the radar of the mainstream.

"Our goal is to spread the ideals of participatory media, while breaking the
illusions cast by Hollywood & CNN," says Beibin. "You won't see these films
at typical indie festivals." 

Beibin runs the Bloodlink label releasing radical and obscure film, music,
and print. He is also Co-Producer of underground festival favorite Godass
(dir. Esther Bell), and has appeared scandalously on the Jerry Springer show
with Justin Pearson of the San Diego band The Locust. What makes the program
unique is that LFF has stuck like glue to it's Do-It-Yourself roots, and
its' strong sense of dark humor in social commentary.  Lost Film Fest will
only play to all-ages audiences, and pushes the ideals of media
democratization and access. Lost Film Fest encourages other indie
mediamakers to tour with their films, and use the web as a means of
broadcast. The festival constantly experiments with presenting images in
fresh new ways. In the age of media consolidation and monopolies in the US,
where resources and access are scarce for independent viewpoints, Lost Film
Fest has been said to represent the future of cinema.



Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu