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Announcement: Media |
Lost Film Festival Monday the 15th!
by Plate
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
15 Feb 2004 |
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West Philadelphia's Lost Film Festival hits Kansas City 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 appropriately called "Riot Porn" by the festival organizers. |
West Philadelphia's Lost Film Festival hits Kansas City 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 appropriately called "Riot Porn" by the festival organizers.
The unique program is an action packed three hours long, and never drags. 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 the more commercial of indie festivals." Among many of the controversial titles, the Lost Film Fest features The Horribly Stupid Stunt-which has resulted in his untimely death:(dir: The Yes Men), featuring a loose-knit group of anti-capitalist culture jammers who visit an international law conference, then orchestrate an elaborate and effective prank involving the WTO as well as other economic and governmental institutions.
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.
Lost Film Festival 2003 European tour will last 90 days, including visits to larger festivals such as Cannes, K-Town Festival (Copenhagen), & Fluff Fest (Praha). Lost Film Festival (LFF) VHS/DVD compilations vol 1 & 2 will be available at the screenings and feature many of the films presented. Check the website for more details:
www.lostfilmfest.com
. *complete listing of films below
** graphics for print and web are available at www.lostfilmfest.com/press.html
Festival Director Scott Beibin is available for interviews: scottb (at) lostfilmfest.com
(note: Beibin will have a cellphone while in Europe. Until April 28 he can be contacted at 1 (215) 662 0397 or 1 (267) 258 4195.
Booking Inquiries contact Liz Cole liz (at) eviltwinbooking.com
Lost Film Fest official website: www.lostfilmfest.com
FILM LIST: [ Some additions and subtractions may apply to the set]
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 Islams' "Nuclear Holy Warriors" and uses the word "Iraq" as 3 parts of speech in the same sentence. Think Jimmy Stewart meets Josef Goebbels.
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.
Nine News | (Andre Hyland) 8 min
Graphics running across the bottom of the screen are altered ("President Bush declares all foreigners evil...") and interview dialogue cut, edited and reshuffled- sometimes in repetitive hip hop fashion- to create an entirely fictional, but seemingly real, newscast which ultimately told a far more compelling truth than the actual broadcasts. In Nine, Cincinnati Police Academy graduates speak of their excitement in going out to "serve the public." These interviews are interspersed with film clips of Cincinnati police officers violently beating citizens in the streets. Hyland cuts back to the newscaster who chuckles and proclaims, "we've certainly seen that before." And while such liberties are obviously taken out of context, one can't help but think of William Blake's assertion that he, "lied to tell a larger truth."
Burning Man [Trailer] | (Gael Firth) 6 min
Timothy "Speed" Levitch (The Cruise, Waking Life) brings us along for a visually stunning exploration of the Burning Man festival. Each year, tens of thousands converge on the barren alkali flat playa in the desert of Nevada. They exist in a commerce free temporary autonomous community, participants in a grand social experiment, attempting to see the world from a fresh new perspective.
Eye of the Storm | (Raphael Lyon) 16 min
A powerful roughcut of the in-progress documentary. The film covers the rise of argentina.indymedia.org as the popular source of news in that country.
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.
GNN [ 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
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.
The Manipulators | (Andrew Jeffrey Wright / Clare Rojas) 2 min
Andrew Jeffrey Wright & Clare Rojas (Space 1026) use their animation superpowers to hijack a fashion magazine and manipulate the images used to manipulate us.
Gigi from 9 to 5 | (Joanne Nucho) 8 min
A Post Modern & Situationist inspired musical, "Gigi (from 9 to 5)" is a story about the perils of the endless cycle of work and consumption. Gigi sings and dances her way through her day, trying to keep up with the show. Features Gina Young and members of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's & Black Dice.
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?
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.
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.
Maryland 355 | (Ben Scholle)
A self critical and hilarious activist produced narrative in which Anarchists searching for a meaningful approach to improving the social good, decide to adopt a highway. Featuring Eric Hammar (Frail), author Carissa Vandenberk Clark & Scott Beibin (lost film fest)
Anarchy in LA | (Jino Choi)
A primer on the most misunderstood philosophy of modern history, this piece dispels the common myths and misconceptions about anarchism while pointing out its' relevance and influence in the current protest movement. Cameo appearance by the infamous Spock Bloc.
Anarchy Carpet | (Siketrike)
A carpet roams the streets of Baltimore convincing the kids that a life of egalitarian cooperation would be more fun than living under consumer capitalism. |
See also:
http://www.kcdirectaction.net
http://www.lostfilmfest.org
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Commentary: Media |
Re: Lost Film Festival Monday the 15th!
by Plate
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
15 Feb 2004 |
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I forgot to tell where!
Films will be shown in Epperson Auditorium at the Kansas City Art Institute. Show starts at 7 and to get there, enter through either side of the Institute and look for the signs. |
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