NEW YORK FILM SCREEENINGS
November 14-17 at Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue at 1st St.)

Thursday, November 14
Program 1 - 7 pm
Program 2 - 9:30 pm

Friday, November 15
Program 3 - 7 pm
Program 4 - 9:30 pm

Saturday, November 16
Program 2 - 3:30 pm
Program 1 - 8:30 pm

Sunday, November 17
Program 4 - 7 pm
Program 3 - 9 pm

PROGRAM 1
Thursday, 7 pm; Saturday, 8:30
The Media Pranks and Hoaxes of Negativland
A 90-minute film/lecture presentation by Mark Hosler.

Mark Hosler of Negativland will discuss the "culture jamming" projects his band has been doing since 1980. Hosler will also be showing series of short videos in which Negativland brings its love of found sounds and recycled mass culture to experimental moviemaking. Outspoken artist-activists, Negativland has released 19 CDs, one book (Fair Use: The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2) and has been sued twice for copyright infringement. A Q&A will follow.

PROGRAM 2
Thursday, 9:30 pm; Saturday, 3:30 pm

Paul Harvey Oswald, Fair Use (aprox. 4 min.)
Phil Patiris, Iraq Campaign 1991 (19 min.)
Joe Gibbons, Barbie1s Audition (12 min.)
Brian Springer, Spin (60 min.)

In Spin, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon--all presuming they1re off camera. Iraq Campaign 1991 transforms network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage (all used without permission) into a devastating critique of the media/industrial complex. In Barbie's Audition, Joe Gibbons' darkly comic take on the Hollywood casting couch, Barbie becomes the victim of sexual harrassment. Fair Use, by Paul Harvey Oswald, explains the Illinois group's philosophy of cutting up soundbites and film clips for the sake of parody.

PROGRAM 3
Friday, 7 pm; Sunday, 9 pm

Keith Sanborn, The Artwork in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility (approx. 4 min.)
Jean Hester, Buy Me (4 min.)
Naomi Uman, Removed (8 min.)
Paul Harvey Oswald, A Natural Thing (aprox. 5 min.)
Bill Wasik, Eugene Mirman, Brian Spinks, Black Thunder (2 min)
Michal Levy, Giant Steps (2 min.)
Brian Boyce, State of the Union (2 min.)
Jem Cohen, Excerpt from Chain (about 10 min.)
Todd Haynes, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (43 min.)
[used without permission]
Brian Boyce, Special Report
Michael Colton/ModernHumorist.com, Puppy Love (2 min.)

A series of shorts that appropriate copyrighted works in one way or another: through the use of found footage, unauthorized music, or corporate imagery.

PROGRAM 4
Friday, 9:30; Sunday, 7 pm

Phil Patiris, Iraq Campaign 1991
Craig Baldwin, Tribulation 99

Tribulation 99 is both a skewed history of United States intervention in Latin America and a satire on conspiracy thinking. With images from newsreels, Mexican horror flicks, and beyond, the sci-fi plot suggests that political unrest can be blamed on space aliens living under U.S. atomic test sites. San Francisco-based video artist Phil Patiris transforms network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage (all used without permission) into a devastating critique of the media/industrial complex.


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