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Hopium: Confronting Facism in the Obama Era
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Date:
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Time:
7:00 PM
-
8:30 PM
Event Type:
Screening
Organizer/Author:
Franklin López
Location Details:
Roxie Theater
3125 16th St
near 16th and Mission BART
3125 16th St
near 16th and Mission BART
Hopium: Confronting Fascism in the Obama Era
Thursday May 28th
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Roxie Theater
3125 16th St (near 16th and Mission BART)
Admission $10
HYPERLINK "http://submedia.tv/tour" http://submedia.tv/tour
An evening of underground film and discussion with Franklin "The Stimulator" López of subMedia.tv.
Join the subMedia posse – survival of the smartest starts now! Producer, videographer and creative genius Franklin Lopez exposes crucial current trends with video montages that mix culture jamming, news, satire, music and action to scratch the social justice itch.
Hopium is a crash course on the countercultures, protest movements, and underground forces set to collide in the post-Bush world. Hopium delivers 90 minutes of short films, mashups, and clips from Frank's series It's the End of the World and We Know It and I Feel Fine, the world's most subversive news show. The evening culminates with highlights from the forthcoming END:CIV, and the documentary hit GROUND NOISE & STATIC, a video report from the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 2008.
GROUND NOISE & STATIC
Untold stories of the 2008 presidential conventions
GROUND NOISE & STATIC is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”
This independent documentary was produced by Franklin López (subMedia.TV) and PepperSpray Productions, with contributions by over a dozen indy journalists and media activists. Must-see video for everyone who cares about a free press, police brutality, or democratic rights. 30 minutes, also available on DVD.
GROUND NOISE & STATIC is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their “Unconventional” stories.
END:CIV
(in production)
END:CIV is the first feature film to analyze our culture’s addiction to systemic violence, industrial capitalism and environmental exploitation, as evidenced by the current epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based on the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen and the runaway success of director Franklin Lopez, END:CIV asks: “”If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
subMedia
Since its humble beginnings in 1994, subMedia has grown from a small group of determined filmmakers into a grassroots network of socially and politically engaged artists and individuals. subMedia scrutinizes popular culture and media through the production of film, performance art, video, music and zines.
Equal parts performance and protest, an attitude of "art following action" defines subMedia’s productions. From the regularly released and highly produced video blog It’s the End of the World as We Know It, to the collaborative documentary GROUND NOISE & STATIC, their work injects a radical analysis into the culture with a double dose of satire and subversion
Thursday May 28th
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Roxie Theater
3125 16th St (near 16th and Mission BART)
Admission $10
HYPERLINK "http://submedia.tv/tour" http://submedia.tv/tour
An evening of underground film and discussion with Franklin "The Stimulator" López of subMedia.tv.
Join the subMedia posse – survival of the smartest starts now! Producer, videographer and creative genius Franklin Lopez exposes crucial current trends with video montages that mix culture jamming, news, satire, music and action to scratch the social justice itch.
Hopium is a crash course on the countercultures, protest movements, and underground forces set to collide in the post-Bush world. Hopium delivers 90 minutes of short films, mashups, and clips from Frank's series It's the End of the World and We Know It and I Feel Fine, the world's most subversive news show. The evening culminates with highlights from the forthcoming END:CIV, and the documentary hit GROUND NOISE & STATIC, a video report from the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 2008.
GROUND NOISE & STATIC
Untold stories of the 2008 presidential conventions
GROUND NOISE & STATIC is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”
This independent documentary was produced by Franklin López (subMedia.TV) and PepperSpray Productions, with contributions by over a dozen indy journalists and media activists. Must-see video for everyone who cares about a free press, police brutality, or democratic rights. 30 minutes, also available on DVD.
GROUND NOISE & STATIC is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their “Unconventional” stories.
END:CIV
(in production)
END:CIV is the first feature film to analyze our culture’s addiction to systemic violence, industrial capitalism and environmental exploitation, as evidenced by the current epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based on the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen and the runaway success of director Franklin Lopez, END:CIV asks: “”If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
subMedia
Since its humble beginnings in 1994, subMedia has grown from a small group of determined filmmakers into a grassroots network of socially and politically engaged artists and individuals. subMedia scrutinizes popular culture and media through the production of film, performance art, video, music and zines.
Equal parts performance and protest, an attitude of "art following action" defines subMedia’s productions. From the regularly released and highly produced video blog It’s the End of the World as We Know It, to the collaborative documentary GROUND NOISE & STATIC, their work injects a radical analysis into the culture with a double dose of satire and subversion
For more information:
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/04/16/s...
Added to the calendar on Wed, May 13, 2009 4:37PM
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First of all I want to say thanks for getting people to think out side of the box. I wish there were more people like you with guts to post such questions that are so thought provoking. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one. Giving you a * for that one! As for revolution I love to see it happen in my life time. As an anarchist I would love to see anarchy, not chaos and disorder but true anarchy where everyone can live and work together in a society based on cooperation volunteer work and sharing and all the good stuff. Anarchy does not mean you are free to commit murder and not stand trial. Anarchists believe in organization and justice. Only Justice will bring about peace in the real world. In an anarchist society if it were to exist in the future there would be little need for violence in the name of survival because the old world of selfishness which we live in now would seize to exit. Do not want to explain everything so I guess you'll have to do some research and you will if you really want to know because there is a lot more to it than the American dictionary version, government version and generalization by society. In reality, crimes against humanity shall not go unpunished even in an anarchist society. There will be little if no incentive to commit crime in the name of survival if we all work together. And if a man or women commits a crime and is mentally ill they will be physiologically observed. Anarchy does not mean total chaos. And for those who are happy to believe that's what it is, I am sorry. As a true anarchist I believe in freedom so long as it does not pounce on the freedom of others rights. The right for war to be carried out for business and pleasure is not a right at all. By protesting and committing acts of vandalism against government and bank, corporate property we are not taking away their rights because their right to oppress us is not a real right. It is a wrong. Their right to rule over us in such a manner is our oppression. In order for a revolution to take place the situation here at home would have to be so desperate that it would take only one thing to set it off. Living in hard times right now I'd say those in power better stop rockin the boat or else they want to wind up toast.
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