OAS Node #1 [9/21]: David Spaner

Occupational Art School Node 1 at Bat Haus is pleased to present an evening with David Spaner, who is visiting New York City to talk about his book SHOOT IT! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film. Friday from 7-9PM, David Spaner will read a few passages from SHOOT IT! and engage in an open forum on the global corporate movie industry and its positive and negative effects on burgeoning alt.cinema. Copies of SHOOT IT! will be available for purchase and signing. Event is free for first-time visitors to OASN1@Bat Haus. Barter-gifts can arranged with OASN1 for returnees. 

CONTACT: OAS co-organizer Paul McLean artforhumans [at] gmail [dot] com

FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/515008968528042/

ABOUT DAVID SPANER: 

David Spaner has worked as a movie critic, feature writer, reporter, and editor for numerous newspapers and magazines. Spaner's writings about culture (mostly film) and politics have appeared in alternative (The Open Road, Yipster Times, Georgia Straight) and mainstream publications (Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Magazine). His movie coverage and other cultural writing was featured in the Vancouver Province daily newspaper from 1999 to 2008, and won the Publishers Award for best feature writing in the paper. Spaner's column on independent film, "Indie City," also appeared in the newspaper.

MORE: http://www.cbsdtoolkit.com/microsites/?p=3&id=556

ABOUT SHOOT IT!:

Shoot It! is a revealing history of how Hollywood, with its eye on the bottom line, arguably lost its ability to support the work of creative filmmakers; it is also a passionate portrait of the independent filmmakers around the world who have risen up to fill the void.

While the studios envisage a generic universe, repressing local film cultures along the way, talented independents continue to tell local stories with universal appeal. This book is a celebration of those determined filmmakers who, despite it all, overcome every obstacle and just shoot it!

MORE: http://www.cbsdtoolkit.com/microsites/?id=556

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE DAVID SPANER THIS WEEK IN NYC: 

Wednesday, September 19th, 7:00pm

Shoot It! reading, screening of Cassavetes' Shadows, & a discussion w/ Leila Goldoni

Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway (at 12th Street), 3rd floor, New York, NY

Ticketing info: $10 Strand gift card or purchase of Shoot It!

Thursday, September 20th, 6:00pm (Doors: 5:30pm)

"Meet the Scholar" clips & discussion with David Spaner

3rd floor Screening Room, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre

111 Amsterdam Ave., 64th-65th Sts, New York

FREE EVENT

MORE INFO: http://www.cbsdtoolkit.com/microsites/?p=2&id=556

AUTHOR DAVID SPANER DISCUSSING SHOOT IT! ON URBAN RUSH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PezskcbmxM

READING + DISCUSSION WITH SHOOT IT! AUTHOR DAVID SPANER AT BOOK SOUP: http://youtu.be/SSfrnmLWD5Q

PREVIEW AND/OR PURCHASE SHOOT IT! ON AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Shoot-It-Hollywood-Rising-Independent/dp/1551524082

STATE OF REVOLUTION

#STATEOFREVOLUTION: A 2011 Visual Retrospective of Activism in New York – SNEAK PEEK from Rhodes Pictures on Vimeo.

Tonight [#f22] at Living Theatre!

Very Special Events happening tonight at The Living Theatre!

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"Political Origins of The Living Theatre"

Today, Wednesday February 22nd: come see Paul Goodman Changed My Life by Jonathan Lee, about the man who made anarchists out of Judith Malina and Julian Beck.  9:45pm start time after the play, and talkback featuring Judith and Paul McLean from Occupy With Art. Learn more at http://www.paulgoodmanfilm.com/

LIVING THEATRE: [LINK]

MORE THIS WEEK AT LIVING THEATRE: [LINK]

Hyper-Imaginary [Movie]: A Screening Program for the Spatial Occupation residency at Hyperallergic: F7

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
February 6, 2012

Hyper-Imaginary [Movie]: A Screening Program for the Spatial Occupation residency at Hyperallergic
Tuesdays 7PM, February-March 2012
Start Date: February 7, 2012 (orientation)
Contact: ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com

HYPER-imaginary MOVIE

[SUMMARY]: For February and March of 2012, Hyperallergic has invited the Spatial Team [Occupy Wall Street/NYCGA/Arts & Culture Working Group] to occupy the Hyperallergic office in Williamsburg/Brooklyn/NYC/NY/USA. On Tuesday evenings at 7PM, we will meet to consider the moving image in relation to Occupy Wall Street. We will watch movies, videos, animations and maybe create some of our own. We'll also talk, share ideas, and invite guests to inspire the occupation of the moving image.

[PROPOSITIONS]: Is a fully occupied life better than any movie? Does a movement have a movie?

When Occupiers appeared as an intervention on the Law & Order: SVU set in December of 2011 did they re-establish actuality to the "Mockupy" scenario made-for-TV, or did something more profound occur? [1] What would Baudrillard say? One sign carried by a protester read, "WE ARE A MOVEMENT - NOT A TV PLOT." Is this true?

How has Occupy Wall Street inspired filmmakers to re-examine cinema as a project? Is filmmaking by consensus possible? Is Hollywood immune to horizontal structures and transparency? Will OWS inspire a 99% cinema? What would that be, and who will produce it? What of the "director," the "actors," the "star," or the "crew?" How does the production praxis of the moving image, and the roles of the players within its context, shift in the 99% movie's creation? How will the final cut be distributed?

Which films would be on a Top Ten Movies of Occupation list?  

Regarding online video [2]:

>>In his rather grim assessment of the domain of small screen video in the introduction to Video Vortex II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube, Geert Lovink writes, “The Attention War is real.” [3] Nothing has authenticated Lovink’s claim more profoundly than Occupy Wall Street. Earlier in the short but seminal text, Lovink doggedly propositions us with a sequence of questions about the future of online video, finishing with this one: “Is online video liberating us from anything?”

Post-9-17-2011 (the day OWS materialized as an occupation of Zuccotti Park), we have some new answers about the utilitarian value of online video. I’m not referring to anything remotely art-centric here, yet, with regards small-screen, networked video transmitted on/for/by electronic devices.

I mean moving images that seemingly erupt from the societal margins and shoot into the monopolized global perceptual space, disrupting the placid managed surface of acceptable 1% talking points. I mean movies that project a 99%-oriented iteration of real events into the stream of content wired people access to figure out what’s happening now, and not just what’s happening in one’s particular, preferred info-silo.

Online video has occupied Big Picture reality, finally offering more than laughing babies, cute kitties and bedroom guitar maestros. Online video is maturing as a decentralized syndicate for unmediated transmissions. What OWS has proven is that the “margins” are really the main, and the Dark Matter Greg Sholette describes in his book by the same name, [4] the 99% - is us, to paraphrase Pogo.<< (Paul McLean, “Low Lives: Occupy”)

Will we make our own movie, starring ourselves? Is this a "game" project for the Novads, and what are the stakes?

REFERENCES:
[1] http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/law-order-svu-occupy-wall-street-set-overtaken-real-ows-protestors-video-33468

[2, 3] http://www.occupywithart.com/llo-supporting-text/ + free download of Video Vortex Reader 2: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader

[4] In the Occupy with Art library: http://www.occupywithart.com/occupennial-library/2011/10/9/dark-matter-art-and-politics-in-the-age-of-enterprise-cultur.html

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New Video from Liza Bear

Here's some OWS street theatre
of the absurd to start off the New Year,
which I trust will be an excellent one
for you.

Feliz Año Nuevo

Liza Béar

aka Squaring Off

#WhileWeWatch OWS documentary film premiering January 11th 2012

#WhileWeWatch is the gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution. Citizens came together at Zuccotti Park with energy, intelligence and guts to impassion their message, "We are the 99%."

Photo by Paul Talbot

#WhileWeWatch discovers the #OWS media team who had no fear of a critical city government, big corporations, hostile police, or a lagging main stream media to tell their story.
 
Through rain, snow, grueling days, sleeping on concrete; they pumped out exhilarating ideas to the world. Fueled with little money, they relied on the power of Twitter, texting, Wi-Fi, posters, Tumblr, live streams, YouTube, Facebook, dramatic marches, drumbeats and chants.
 
We witness a new dawn with the power of social media.

Click to read more ...

Occupy Cinema at Anthology Film Archives

Peter Whitehead's The Fall screens January 8

Occupy Cinema is pleased to announce it’s co-organizing OCCUPY WALL STREET AT AFA with Anthology Film Archives. January 7 and 8 Anthology’s screens will feature a number of films related to the International Occupy movement, including an evening duplicating the Ken Jacobs program Occupy Cinema presented in Zuccotti Park barely 24 hours before the NYPD cleared out the encampment. Later that night OC members will be in attendance to present Travis Wilkerson’s An Injury to One preceded by a selection of Occupy Wall Street footage we have curated. This includes documentation of our recent projections at Charging Bull and Brooklyn College Graduate Center classroom discussion.

A teaser of that footage is HERE along with Anthology’s full program notes. Look forward to seeing you at AFA!



Occupy the Bull: Dec 6, 2011

Occupy Cinema will present a very special projection and performance at the charging bull sculpture Tuesday night starting at 6PM.

The projection will be a homage to the iconic Adbusters image (below) that sparked the Occupy revolution. The dean of Brooklyn College has donated their window that overlooks the bull for this special night.

Please come out in support (tutus optional).

Occupycinema.org



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A New Day Begins At Occupy Wall Street

A New Day Begins At Occupy Wall Street from Claire on Vimeo.

8mm film by Claire Kelley

This Super 8 film was shot a half hour after police confiscated generators at Liberty Plaza and 24 hours before a snowstorm hit New York.

I showed it at the Detours film festival in Greece a few weeks ago
(http://www.festivaldetours.org/).

Claire

Occupy Yourself

Occupy Yourself… We are living Installations

The Movie

Michael Alan 

In solidarity with the occupation of Liberty Square

AT Judson Church entrance  

55 Washington Square South

Saturday, November 19th, 7pm till 10pmish

Free

a film about change, the limits of freedom, and an attack on fear. Working with the human body, metamorphosing into a living breathing installation that demonstrates we can withstand anything put onto us. Through intricate connections and juxtapositions in the guise of random chaos, these living installations transcend the injustices of the material world by employing these same materials upside down. We are more than property. We are more than buildings. We are part of Life. Living, breathing potential fire. With the ability to do anything. This is about people, not about businesses, faceless corporations or technology.

Through the simplest materials mixed and smashed, masks, multiple textures, stolen objects, and cut-up drawings rearranged artist Michael Alan adds on to his team of friends, and family. These fearless art activists armed, activated Glue-sprayed flesh joins together, splattered to combine into one boundless, self-aware living work of awarness. This artistic expression is in direct response to the confusing, uncertain and downtrodden world we all seem to experience. Occupy Yourself is a call to all individuals to become aware that limits are self-imposed and can be changed by going beyond barriers, thinking outside what you what should do, and joining together to overcome our imagined adversaries.

Action

OccupyYourself the movie will project on the Church entrance of Judson, were the political asylum is being held for the occupiers. Project it onto the entrance, then repeat and project many times, giving positive messages throughout the night to whoever shows. Everyone is asked to meet at 7pm at entrance of the church for a night of peace, and positive celebration of life. 

Michael Alan, Garry Boake, in solidarity with the Occupation of Liberty Square invite you for a night of Old time projection, awareness, and fun.This is a peace full action symbolizing Freedom and a pause in time, a new start, The entrance of the church represents a new beginning. OccupyYourself, Live Now, lets all get activated. Projection on the streets is a way to speak to the world around you. 

Cast and crew:  Garry Boake, Dave Modello, Theresa Magario ™, Michael Alan

Steev Perez, Raquel Mavecq, Kim De'ville, Kenny Scharf, Worm Carnevale, Teddi Rogers, Raquel Echanique, Dylan Morgan, Dave1,

Jarvis Jun Earnshaw, Emil BN,  George Marango, Nick Greenwald, Ana Andrade,  Julie Turner and many more



Ken Jacobs Screening, Nov 13 2011

The night before the raid

OCCUPY CINEMA