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News from the Underground, a festival of Autonomous Media


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


RE:

1. News from the Underground:

A Festival of Autonomous Media

Benefit for Chicago Indymedia and Hasta Cuando

Sponsored by Ritual Multimedia, Chicago Media Action, Labor Beat / Labor Express, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, Polvo Arte, and Producciones en el ojo.

2. Chicago Indymedia to premiere Chicago Independent Television at News from the Underground.



News from the Underground, a festival of autonomous media, will celebrate all the news and views that corporate interests marginalize. The festival features a collaboration of independent and grassroots media organizations coming together for the purpose of promoting independent, non-corporate, grassroots journalism and arts. The festival will feature the premiere episode of Chicago Independent Television, produced by the Chicago Indymedia video collective, whose mission is to provide your corporate news alternative.




FESTIVAL DATES:

January 16th and 17th @ 8 p.m.


LOCATIONS:

Women in the Director's Chair on January 16th @ 8 p.m., 941 W. Lawrence

Decima Musa on January 17th @ 8 p.m., 1901 S. Loomis



SCHEDULE:


January 16th

programme starts @ 8 p.m.

video screenings: "Independent Media in a Time of War"*

"Live from Ground Zero" (WTO Cancun)*

Chiapas Media Project

Chicago Independent Television, Episode 1


Additional events:

Photoexhibit from the Chicago Indymedia photogroup.

Report back from FTAA protests (videos and speakers).

Musical guest CHUY NEGRETTE.


January 17th

programme starts @ 8 p.m.

video screenings: "Pollution at H. Kramer"

"Tierra y Violencia"

Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness"*

"INFOWAR"

Additional events:

Report back from FTAA protests (videos and speakers).

Musical guest TBA.




CONTACT INFO:

Chicago Independent Media Center - Thomas Yun, (312) 505-0764, mayday@riseup.net

Hasta Cuando - Tracy Kurowski (312) 282-6787, tracykurowski@postmark.net

www.chicago.indymedia.org (festival page coming soon)




*DETAILS FOR SELECTED MOVIES:

INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR

Produced by Branda Miller & Hudson Mohawk Indy Media

U.S.A. 2003, VHS, 35 minutes


In this important, powerful, and timely lecture, Amy Goodman--independent journalist and host of the popular radio show Democracy Now!--speaks about the corporate media's coverage of the 2003 Iraq War. She discusses the way that the U.S. media downplayed civilian casualities and glorified military combat, and she asks her audience to consider the costs of coverage that is both sanitized and sensationalized. At the core of her lecture is a deep commitment to the ethics of journalism--she believes that the role of reporters is to ferret out the facts, to question those in power, and to "go to where the silence is, and say something." Goodman uses the concrete example of the Iraq war to ask her audience to grapple with a larger question--what impact does the commercialization and consolidation of the media industry have on journalism and democracy?



LIVE FROM GROUND ZERO

Produced by Indymedia Cancun

Mexico and U.S.A. 2003, VHS, 14.5 minutes


Indymedia coverage of the WTO protests which occurred in Cancun, Mexico in September. Eye-popping footage of anti-globalization Latin American style. Features interviews with indigenous peoples explaining exactly how the WTO and globalization are directly harming them. Features a memorial to Lee, the South Korean farmer who killed himself as an act of protest.


INFOWAR

Directed by SEMA4

U.S.A. 2003, VHS, 6.5 minutes


A techno-assault on the Bush Administration and modern warfare.


LESSONS OF DARKNESS

(Lektionen in Finsternis)

Directed by Werner Herzog

Germany 1992, 35mm, color, 52 min.

German with English subtitles


Shortly after the Gulf War, filmmaker Werner Herzog teamed up with cameraman and coproducer Paul Berriff to document the postwar devastation inside Kuwait. The result is a Dantean view of apocalyptic spectacle: lakes and deltas of thick black oil; burning wells sending towers of flame skyward and superheating everything around them. The film is organized into thirteen "chapters," narrated by Herzog in an appropriately hushed and awestruck voice and set to music by Mahler, Wagner, and Verdi. Lessons of Darkness was chosen as the best film of 1995 by J. Hoberman of The Village Voice, who proclaimed that the film "could have been made to illustrate the Book of Revelations."


POLLUTION AT H. KRAMER

Produced by Dorian Breuer and Thomas Yun

U.S.A. 2003, VHS, 6.5 minutes


“Chicago Indymedia at its finest” this short video features secretly videotaped interviews with employees at H. Kramer vainly trying to explain away billowing clouds of pollutants and a secretly videotaped interview of Pilsen Green Dorian Breuer in the “bowels of H. Kramer.”


 
 

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