Auckland Independent Media Centre presents a video antidote to mainstream media, with a night of action inspiring documentaries on Monday 30th June, at Alleluyah Cafe, St Kevin's Arcade, 183 K' Rd, Auckland.
Auckland Independent Media Centre presents a video antidote to mainstream media, with a night of action inspiring documentaries on Monday 30th June, at Alleluyah Cafe, St Kevin's Arcade, 183 K' Rd, Auckland.
Featuring, Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture, Globalisation and the Media, and the locally produced CELL ART Anti-Ads, there is a clear theme of dissatisfaction with the current media climate. But stronger than this is the sense of optimism, as each documentary explores the power of individuals to make a difference from something as simple as hand drawn anti-ad stickers to innovative subversion of corporate billboards, through to the use of technology such as camcorders and the internet.
The upcoming screening on the 30th June is the second such screening organised by Auckland Indymedia and is part of our aim to provide a regular forum for alternative political documentary making and media art.
Admission is $5.00 waged, $3.00 unwaged. Door sales only.
CULTURE JAM: Hijacking Commercial Culture - (57 minutes)
This doco delivers a fascinating rap on the 20th Century movement called "Culture Jamming" - taking a look at new breed of revolutionary that stands poised along our information highways waging war on logos and symbols:
Culture Jammers. These pranksters and subversive artists are on a mission to artfully reclaim our mental environment by causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Stopping over in San Francisco, NY and
Toronto, we catch the jamming in action with likes of the Billboard Liberation Front, Disneyarchenemy Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping Culture, cultural commentators, a billboard advertiser and a constitutional lawyer.
CULTURE JAM asks: Is Culture Jamming civil disobedience? Senseless vandalism? The only form of self defense left?
Screened at the International Film Festival in Auckland 2002.
GLOBALISATION AND THE MEDIA- (21 mins)
Globalisation and the Media explores how the media is involved in shaping public opinion during the ?War on Terrorism? and Globalisation. It offers a wide range of viewpoints from broadcasters, journalists, computer hackers,
media activists, and news editors. Travelling across the USA, Nigeria, Britain and Italy, it reports on the violent suppression of the alternative media. Discover how new technology, such as the internet and camcorders, is challenging the role of the traditional news gatherer.
CELL ART Anti-Ads
Locally produced by Auckland artistic, these artistic adbuster style commentaries on transnational companies in New Zealand. starting with Tranzrail, winner of this year?s Roger Awards. Funny stuff. Diadvertisments.