31. Október – 2. Nóvember
ANDSPYRNUBÍÓ – Pólitísk Kvikmyndahátíð
Kaffi Hljómalind, Laugarvegur 23 – FRÍTT INN
- FÖSTUDAGUR 31. OKTÓBER
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.
- LAUGARDAGUR 1. NÓVEMBER
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.
- SUNNUDAGUR 2. NÓVEMBER
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 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.