SUBVERSIVE ACTION FILM EVENING! (1 Viewer)

[faganfest!]

SUBVERSIVE ACTION FILM DAY!

AN AFTERNOON OF INDEPENDENT ANARCHIST FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES SUCH AS:

SURPLUS
(one hour documentary on 21st century consumerism)

TAKE BACK THE CITY
(10 minute vid of the street party in september)

each film will be analysed by a speaker before showing, and discussions will take place afterwards.

bookstalls and workshops also on the day!

Saturday November 5th,
Wolfe tone community hall,
Bray, Co. Wicklow
5.00PM
€3 admission

 

[W.]

Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth? Surplus approach is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective, shot in the US, India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years. It is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg.
George W Bush's famous "shopping-speech" calling for a war against terrorism that deters the nation from the fear of consumption. Castro responding with hymns to the anti-consumerist, advertising-free island of Cuba. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer preaching that the computer will give us peace on earth "bringing people together" while Adbuster Kalle Lasn warns that advertising pollutes us mentally, that over-consumption is unsustainable and that we are running out of oil.

Surplus main man is John Zerzan, controversial philosopher whose call for PROPERTY DAMAGE has inspired many to take to the streets. "That is not violence. Sitting there doing dope and watching MTV . Then you go and get a job. Just schlep along. To me that is violence," says Zerzan. "We are terrorized into being consumers."

In November 2003 Surplus was awarded with the most prestigious prize a Documentary can get, The Silver Wolf at Amsterdam's IDFA, and has spread widely around the globe since then.

"... This film about consumerism totally consumed us. It used the language of music video, propaganda and commercial advertising as a response to the forces of globalisation. It fights fire with fire. The questions it raises are ultimately more important than any answers it might suggest. And we believe audiences can only profit from the debate that will ensue. For its originality, sense of humour, irony, forcefulness and visual virtuosity, the Silver Wolf Award goes to SURPLUS." The Jury of the International Documentary Filmfestival in Amsterdam, Nov.2003.


"...juxtaposes images and music with great rythm and technical perfection" Il Manifesto


"Surplus is an open declaration of war on terror" Adbusters Magazine


Surplus was recently awarded with two major international Environmental film awards, FICA in Brazil and ECOCINEMA in Greece "The Cora Coralina prize and trophy, for the greatest of all the productions presented goes to"Surplus",..... for the creative way in which it denounces the current standards of production and consumption, especially in rich countries, as extremely harmful to the environment and to interpersonal relations. The issue, which justified an inspired and surprising editing work, is absent in the media, badly explored in literature, and of fundamental importance for the understanding of the causes of the civilization dilemma that affects everyone in our days."

In October 2004 Surplus was awarded with two Special Mentions at Environmental Film Festival of Torino, the Jury statement is:
"Un film che, partendo dai concetti anticonsumistici di un personaggio-contro, sviluppa in maniera dinamica, sarcastica e modernamente aggressiva i pericoli immanenti di un modo di esistere che tutti ci riguarda."

Surplus.

 

[Shorty]

www.thetake.org

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

maybe you can discuss the use of the worst music of all time in that music promo / computer game cut scene for take back the city

youth culture

 

[Rachel666]

maybe you can discuss the use of the worst music of all time in that music promo / computer game cut scene for take back the city

youth culture

Yeah I wasn't pleased with the music myself but sure make your own soundtrack. Mine's Spear and Magic Helmet by the Gits..|..|

 

[Gambra]

hey, leave off the music. it may not have been great but they did what they could! heh heh..

 

[W.]

the guys who made that are looking for copyright free music to use in the films, so why don't you offer up some of ur own?

 

[Gambra]

http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=opensource_audio

all the music there can be used copyright free under the Creative COmmons license

 

[mackle]

Yeah I wasn't pleased with the music myself but sure make your own soundtrack. Mine's Spear and Magic Helmet by the Gits..|..|

See yourself dancing then Michelle? Did you spot my friend doing his stupid dance? Near pissed myself laughing at that.

 

[spuded]

just put some good grind on when you play it i find that works for most 'documentaries'

like that faces of death suicide on the bridge thats to some death metal soundtrack, it's an intense video but the music makes it manic as fuck.|..|

 

[spuded]

oh yeah and sorry for getting off the point SURPLUS yeah..

 

[W.]

 

[Rachel666]

See yourself dancing then Michelle? Did you spot my friend doing his stupid dance? Near pissed myself laughing at that.

no I didn't and I've been keeping a lookout for him. It was like he was fighting a bear while trying to dance. It was both funny and frightening!
I saw myself awkwardly watching the gimpy PVC man dancing...

it'll be good to see the footage with all the people who were there. Shame about the venue though. Wolfetone is a crappy basketball court.

 

[Gambra]

class lookin poster

 

[faganfest!]

ibump!

 

[W.]

any chance of putting directions on this and all the others?

 

[Shorty]

..

 

[W.]

get off at main street bray. walk to the medi-evil looking macdonals, everyone will know where that is. the Mickidee's is a fork in a road. take the left sid of the road, and keep walkin uphill to vevay road. the vevay inn shall be there, about 15 mins from the McD's , and about 5 mins from a tesco that you'll pass on the way up there. when you get to the vevay inn, there'll be a lane. walk down it to a big sports hall. that's it.

well maybe you don't have to do all that walkin. just stay on the bus (that's wicklow/greystones bound) til you see the vevay inn. get off there, and yer sorted

Making threat a punk again.