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Our friends at the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination need your video skills.  Their forthcoming book/film, Paths Through Utopias, will be a brilliant speculative fiction, a look at the crisis folklores of tomorrow through the lens of today’s post-crash resistant spaces:

Whilst the book is a piece of travel writing about the experience the film is a documentary fiction in the form of a post crash road movie, shot in the places visited but set in the future. The book and the film are seen as a dialogue between present and future, fact and imagination.

Unfortunately, the Lab of ii’s film editor has fallen ill – too seriously ill to finish the project, and they’re in need of a new person to fill that role.  If you have the experience, especially if you have worked with feature-length films, know Final Cut Pro, are open to experimental and collective working environments, and share in the film’s vision, you might just be perfect for the job!

There’s a modest sum of money attached, £2000, to carry you through the July 2010 deadline.  If you’re not busy and are interested, drop us a line before the end of January and we’ll put you in touch with the right folks.

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The CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival is a three-day series of films, post-screening discussions, and related events held every year in San Francisco. It includes U.S. and foreign, feature-length and short, documentary, narrative (fictional) and animated films.

By “anti-corporate” we don’t just mean “independent” (i.e., non-corporate) films, but those that examine and reflect the role that corporations play in our daily lives, and the effect they have on people, communities, and cultures around the world — and on the planet itself.

CounterCorp seeks to document, reduce, and ultimately prevent the corrosive political, economic, and social effects that large corporations have in the U.S. and around the world.

This year’s festival takes place May 14-16, at the Victoria Theater, San Francisco.

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Does Your Soul Have A Cold (2007) explores the recent introduction of anti-depressants (and the concept of depression more generally) into Japanese society.  Filmmaker Mike Mills fingers Western pharmaceutical companies as the progenitors of the idea, as they create demand for their drugs through advertising.

Via De-Branding

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In response to the current Israeli offensive, The Media Education Foundation (MEF) has released their feature-length documentary Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land online for free.

The MEF explains:

The film traces a longstanding pattern of media bias in the U.S., providing much needed context for understanding American news coverage of events in Gaza now [and] has elicited widespread praise for its clear-eyed analysis of both the conflict and the often one-sided way it has been presented to Americans over the years . . . We are taking this unprecedented step to offer critical perspective on how the U.S. news media are covering this crisis.

Watch the film here.

The poster above is by Jesus Barraza, and is also available for free from the Just Seeds Blog.

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NAMAC has a short article on Appalshop’s four decades, focused mostly on Thousands Kites.

Media artist Nick Szuberla discusses scale, the value of situated knowledge, and their use of the “digital story feedback loop.”

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