Dear Spectre film-goers and mediaheads, The 7th *Globale* Film Festival begins next week in Berlin at Kino Moviemento and runs November 3-9. Since 2003, *Globale* brings pressing political issues to the screen and provides a space for dialogue with filmmakers and special guests.
Themes in focus this year include: * ENERGY * MIGRATION * FEMINIST FILM AND MOVEMENT * RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA * ARAB LANDS IN FOCUS * CRISIS * LAND GRABBING IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA * LABOR CONDITIONS * ROMA/DEPORTATION See the full list of topics and program here: http://globale-filmfestival.org/files/booklets/globale11.pdf --- AND Of special note to all the Spectres, this year we feature a block called : * MEDIA IMPLOSION A 3-part program in collaboration with The XLterrestrials and CiTiZEN KiNO includes 2 screenings and a workshop seminar at C-Base with special guests Marc Herbst (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest), Claudia Becker from Vilem Flusser Achives, and Anne Roth from Annalist. For an overview of the Media Implosion topic read below, and/or follow some development of its themes online: http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/ --- * MEDIA IMPLOSION dates, locations, texts: 06.11.11 - Part 1: CiTiZEN KiNO at Moviemento, 20:30h 08.11.11 - Part 2: Media Implosion Seminar/Panel, C-base, 19:00h 09.11.11 - Part 3: Occupy The Cinema at Moviemento (evening, TBA) --- How do we see the world ? Through the 3 - 6 - 9 - 12 hours of various media we navigate per day? Or by our community relations and actions? Documentary films provide one of the most powerful mediums for sharing in-depth perspective on urgent and complex issues. But when the media landscape is veering towards a disembodied corporate/consumer enterprise and everyone is drowning in a sea of information, we may be left unable to adequately respond. One recourse may be (self-)analysis, media self-defense and a new tactical cinema. ----- Media Implosion Part 1: ( in eng + de ) Citizen Kino presents "The Screen Is Not The Territory" Selected shorts ranging from Adam Curtis to ZumbaKamera to Anonymous. The XLterrestrials, an arts + praxis laboratory, take you on an interactive tour through a collection of pioneering works and media flotsam. We do NOT provide a comfortable seat to passively download and feed the endlessly hungry eye. We are shouting "Fire!" in the all-consuming theater! This is a program for Media Self-defense ! ------ Media Implosion Part 2: ( in eng ) Panel/Workshop w/ Anne Roth (Annalist ), Claudia Becker ( Flusser Archives), Marc Herbst ( Journal of Aesthetics and Protest ) + Paolo Podrescu ( XLterrestrials), etc. We invite doc makers + new media ninjas, bloggers, hackers + global citizens to analyze the ever-shifting media landscape. Surely we have now "become the media", and we are all in, if not on, the Net! A world of Server Clouds, Gamefication, Virtual Migration, Twitterization, Wikileaks, Social Networks, Data-Leeching + Surveillance, Augmented Hypermarkets, etc.... all spilling over into every corner of our lives, and voraciously eating up our days. Are we empowering communities or are we feeding the corporate monster state?! Will an information society on this scale bring about liberation + higher (collective) intelligence or be the final consumer mousetrap !? And a discussion about “Tactical Cinema” in this precariously digitized world. ---- Media Implosion Part 3: "Occupy The Cinema" - fresh clips from the multiple fronts around the globe, with special guests ! ---- XLterrestrials' *GLOBALE* reports and analysis online.... Globale 2011 + A Tactical Cinema For DANGEROUS Times ! http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=7464 Media Implosion v.1: Bank-Lickers and Brain-feeders... unplugged ! http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=7563 --- Hope you can join us ! the XLterrestrials fwd> *Globale* press release **************************************************** de Liebe alle, vom 03.- 09. November 2011 findet zum siebten mal das *globale*-Filmfestival im Kino Moviemento statt. Die *globale* ist seit 2003 ein ehrenamtliches Projekt von filmbegeisterten politischen Menschen, die sich nicht mit den gesellschaftlichen Widersprüchen und den brutalen Auswirkungen der neoliberalen Globalisierung abfinden wollen. Wir zeigen Dokumentationen, Spiel- und Kurzfilme zu drängenden politischen Fragen - wie gewohnt mit anschließenden Publikumsgesprächen mit den Filmemacher_innen und/oder Referent_innen. Die Themenblöcke in diesem Jahr sind: * Energie * Arabische Länder im Fokus * Migration * Feministischer Film und Bewegung * Media Implosion * Krise * Indien * Widerstand in Lateinamerika * Falsos Positivos in Kolumbien * Landraub in Sub-Sahara Afrika * Erziehungspolitik in Sub-Sahara Afrika * Arbeitsbedingungen * Roma/Abschiebung * 40 Jahre Rauch-Haus Wir freuen uns auf Filmemacher_innen und Aktivist_innen u.a. aus Mali, England, Griechenland, Italien, der Türkei. Das komplette Programm findet ihr hier: http://globale-filmfestival.org/files/booklets/globale11.pdf Wir freuen uns auf euch! Das globale-Team http://globale-filmfestival.org/ Kino Moviemento Kottbusser Damm 22 10967 Berlin Kinokasse: 692 47 85 Press/Contacts: "Lieke" <li...@globale-filmfestival.org> "Paolo" <p...@xlterrestrials.org> globale Filmfestival http://globale-filmfestival.org/ --- 0----O----o www.xlterrestrials.org/plog arts + praxis organisms o-----O------0 ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre