ANDSPYRNUBÍÓ - Political Film Festival
Kaffi Hljómalind, Laugarvegur 23 - Free Entrance
- FRIDAY OCT. 31st
21:00 - The Corporation (Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbot 2003)
The Corporation is a Canadian documentary film critical of the modern-
day corporation, considering is as a class of person and evaluating its
behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychologist might
evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples.
Starring e.g. Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn og Naomi Klein.
- SATURDAY NOV. 1st
18:00 ? Surplus: Terrorized into being Consumers (Erik Gandini,
2003)
Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by
Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism
and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and
argues that these are not being fulfilled. An one hour MTV-style anti-consumerist
beat.
20:00 ? The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel, 2002)
The U.S. radical movement the Weathermen, decided to bring the Vietnam war
home by blowing up governmental buildings. The members went underground
but returned up again later and in the movie they tell their story and explain the
rise and fall of the movement, and everything there between.
22:00 ? My Life as a Terrorist, The story of Hans-Joachim Klein
(Alexander Oey, 2006)
On December 21st 1975, the world was in a shock. Six terrorists led by Carlos
'The Jackal' forced their way into the conference room of the OPEC headquarters
in Vienna and took seventy ministers hostage. During the gun battle with the police
that ensued three people were killed, one terrorist was seriously wounded. The
terrorists managed to escape to Algiers with their wounded partner: Hans-Joachim
Klein. This film shows how the personal events in the life of an individual can lead
to radicalism and terrorism.
- SUNDAY NOV. 2nd
16:00 - The Cell (Angela Melitopoulos, 2003)
The philosopher Antonio Negri published together with co-author Michael Hardt
the world best-seller "Empire". In summer 1997, he decided to conclude a 17-year
long chapter of repressive Italian politics after going through detention and exile
by spontaneously handing himself to prison. He was finally released in 2003.
His report on his experience as a prisoner describes new control forms in the
execution of sentences, aimed at the psyche and the mind of the inmates. Antonio
Negri talks about forms of resistances that allowed him to retain the "liberty of
his spirit".
18:00 ? Themroc (Claude Faralodo, 1973)
Made on a low budget with no intelligible dialog, Themroc tells the story of a
French blue collar worker rebels against modern society, reverting into a urban
caveman. The film's scenes of incest and cannibalism earned it adults-only ratings,
and featured in the UK's Channel 4's red triangle series of controversial films.
20:00 ? Punishment Park (Peter Watkins 1971)
Set in detention camp in an America of the near-future, Punishment Park's,
pseudo-documentary style places a British film crew amongst a group of young
students and minor dissidents who have opted to stay three days in'Bear Mountain
Punishment Park'. The detainees, rather than accept lengthy jail sentences for
their 'crimes', gamble their freedom to on an attempt to reach an American flag
? on foot and without water - through the searing heat of the desert. What follows
is a lethal, one sided game of cat-and-mouse with a squad of heavily armed police
and National Guardsmen. The film was heavily attacked by the mainstream press when it was published.
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