October 8, 2009
Antimatter Film Festival starts tomorrow night!
Antimatter Film festival
The Antimatter Film Festival kicked off with Small World on Friday, Oct 9 at Open Space (510 Fort Street). The excellent opening feature was a multi-media excursion through disney. Artists and local musicians interpreted Disney classics with assistance of shopping carts, painted acoustic guitars, accordions, smoke machines, quirky costumes, tinfoil, and pretty lights. A very fun night to kick off Thanks Giving weekend!
Antimatter continues through Oct 17 with screenings, performances and video installations. Short features are organized into themes including “warming trend: environmentalism alarm bells pealing out for hope; “O’er the land”; “Ju suis une bombe: aesthetic actions promulgate gender confusion/diffusion…”
Full schedule and info at http://www.antimatter.ws or pick up a program guide at any south island Serious Coffee location.
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February 7, 2009
The Victoria Film festival is finishing the weekend. There is some interesting stuff on including
Apology Of An Economic Hitman
John Perkins is a self-confessed economic hit man, reformed and repentant. From 1971 to 1981 he was employed as an economist by consulting firm, Chas T Main. His job‾ To structure huge international loans to Third World countries (in Perkins’ case: Indonesia, Panama and Saudi Arabia), loans to Third World countries for massive construction projects that would funnel the money back to U.S. contractors, enriching the ruling elite at the cost of national self-sufficiency and independence. By this means, Perkins asserts, the US has turned the World Bank and the International Monetary fund into tools of Empire. Perkins premise is that Economics – not inteligence – is where the real cloak and dagger stuff happens.
For details of all festival events and films see:
http://www.victoriafilmfestival.com/
For a humorous take on film festivals see SWPL: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/18/3-film-festivals/
UPDATE:
The Irish film hunger took first prize at the Victoria Film festival
Hunger
World Perspective
(UK, 2008, 100 mins)
35mm
Directed By: Steve McQueen
Producers: Laura Hastuings-Smith, Robin Gultch
Screenwriter: Edna Walsh, Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender
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If nothing else, Hunger is a film that is both brutal and breathtakingly beautiful in a way you probably never thought a film could be. It plunges viewers into the world of the early 1980s H-Blocks uprising and of republican prisoner Bobby Sands (played with formidable force by Michael Fassbender), who died 66 days into a hunger strike. In 1981, the UK was in the thick of the Margaret Thatcher years and in Belfast’s Maze prison, the IRA prisoners had started a blankets and no-washing strike, refusing to conform to the prison rules until they were recognized as political prisoners and not criminals. Davey Gillen, a new prisoner, has come in at the height of this protest and fallen in line with his cellmates including Bobby Sands, H-block’s leader. What should be just passive resistance takes on a terrifying tone as the brutality of the IRA outside the prison through several well coordinated executions soon makes the guards realize that no one is safe. As it seems that the strike can’t get any worse, in walks a priest with a few words for Bobby.
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