[Reader-list] Dj Spooky Sponsors a screening of Iraqi Films, 10/30/08

[Paul Miller]

Hello people - there's an interesting event some friends of mine have  
put together to support some short films that have been made in Iraq  
in the last couple of months and years. It's a pre-election screening  
of some on-the-ground reminders about what has gone wrong in the last  
8 years, not only in the U.S. but in one of the most devastated areas  
of the world to experience the Bush Administration's foreign policy:  
Iraq.

There will be a mini reception after the screening.

Oct 30, 2008 at 7pm

ArteEast, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and Bidoun
Present a Special Pre-Election Screening:
IRAQI SHORT FILMS
HOW WE FIGHT: CONSCRIPTS, MERCENARIES, TERRORISTS, AND PEACEKEEPERS
by Mauro Andrizzi (Argentina, 2008, 94 min DigiBeta)

When: October 30, 2008 7:00 PM
Where: Cantor Film Center, New York University,
36 East 8th St, New York City



>>>> Iraqi Short Films
>>>> by Mauro Andrizzi (Argentina, 2008, 94 min DigiBeta)
>>>>
>>>> HOW WE FIGHT: CONSCRIPTS, MERCENARIES, TERRORISTS, AND PEACEKEEPERS
>>>> Curated by Irina Leimbacher, Kino21 (www.kino21.org)
>>>>
>>>> When: October 30, 2008 7:00 PM
>>>> Where: Cantor Film Center, New York University, 36 East 8th St,  
>>>> New York City
>>>> The first installment in Kino21’s series that explores soldiering  
>>>> and war from the point of view of those on the ground,Iraqi Short  
>>>> Films is a compilation of short videos shot in the midst of war  
>>>> by American and British soldiers, Iraqi militia members, and  
>>>> corporate workers. These are not “films” per se. They are a mix  
>>>> of slices of life recorded on video (many shot while firing on  
>>>> the enemy or being fired upon), pithy propaganda pieces, and  
>>>> soldiers’ visions of war as just another music video.  They are  
>>>> crudely shot fragments, some rife with raw fear, some gloating  
>>>> over momentary victory. Filmed mainly as records, for friends,  
>>>> family, or fellow fighters, and at one point or another put on  
>>>> the web or on local television, the pieces were culled by  
>>>> Andrizzi over several months. Ranging from the banal to the  
>>>> intense, from the shocking to the darkly humorous, Andrizzi’s  
>>>> compilation depicts war as experienced, articulated, and vividly  
>>>> imagined by those actually fighting and dying in it.
>>>>
>>>> Post-screening discussion with Anjali Kamat, Producer, Democracy  
>>>> Now!
>>>>
>>>> Watch Trailer
>>>>  http://www.arteeast.org/pages/cinemaeast/series/Fall-2008/541/

>>>> Click here for more information and to purchase advance tickets
>>>> http://www.arteeast.org/pages/cinemaeast/series/Fall-2008/?section=extra&id=2
>>>> Mauro Andrizzi is an Argentinean scriptwriter and filmmaker born  
>>>> in Mar del Plata in 1980. He studied scriptwriting and graduated  
>>>> from the ENERC (National Film School), Buenos Aires, in 2001. He  
>>>> wrote his first short films as a student 'Blue Room' (1999),  
>>>> 'Terminal Beach' (2000), 'Three versions of a robbery' (2000),  
>>>> 'Neighbours' (2001) and the film-thesis 'Rain' (2001), and worked  
>>>> in several TV shows in Buenos Aires after his graduation. Since  
>>>> 2001, he has been a programmer for the Mar del Plata  
>>>> International Film Festival (Argentina). His works have been  
>>>> screened at major international film festivals. They include  
>>>> 'Color and Pixel' (2006), a documentary short film shot at the  
>>>> Museum of Art History in Vienna, 'Mono' (2007, documentary/ 
>>>> feature film) and 'Iraqi Short Films' (2008), a compilation of  
>>>> video snippets shot by a cross section of amateur documentarians.