[Imc-auckland-events] Indymedia Screening - THE ANTIDOTE #8 - Sunday 15 August 7pm CLAS SIC $5

[Chloe Heffernan (FOA POL)]

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	Auckland Indymedia presents.......
	THE ANTIDOTE #8 
	An evening of alternative political docos 
	Sunday 15th August 2004 
	The Classic Comedy Bar (321 Queen Street, CBD)
	7.00pm start time for films 
	$5 

	This month's Antidote #8 features a varied line up of documentaries
on topics such as culture-jamming, the attempted coup against left-wing
Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez and, back home, the proposed coal mine at
Happy Valley near Westport.
	Popaganda 
	30 mins 
	http://www.popaganda.com/popDocumentary.shtml 
	2004 
	Directed by Pedro Carvajal, "POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron
English" is a film about the culture-jamming and billboard-liberation antics
of Ron English, one of the artists featured in Jill Sharpe's great
documentary "Culture Jam" and whose images appeared in the documentary,
"Supersize Me", at the recent NZ International Film Festival. The modern day
Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents
and satirizes modern culture on canvas, in songs, and directly on hundreds
of pirated billboards. Shot entirely guerrilla-style, the film chronicles
the evolution of an artist who offers an alternative universe where nothing
is sacred, everything is subverted and there's always room for a little
good-natured fun. 
	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 
	74 mins 
	www.chavezthefilm.com 
	2003
	Documentary about the role of the media in the Venezuelan
revolution. The Venezuelan elite has already tried to stage several coups
against the government of President Chavez with US support. The defeat of
the April 2002 coup was captured in gripping detail by a group of Irish film
makers. "The revolution will not be televised" takes its title from the fact
that most television stations in Venezuela are private and refuse to report
on the positive achievements of the revolution. The film makers were inside
the presidential palace when Chávez was ousted by a military-civilian
uprising. The resulting documentary - underwritten by the BBC, Ireland's
RTE, and other European broadcasters - is as thrilling a piece of political
drama as you're likely to see and has won armfuls of prizes, including
Britain's top documentary award, the Grierson. It has aired repeatedly all
around the world, has been shown in movie theatres and at film festivals,
arguably becoming the prevailing interpretation of the continuing Venezuelan
political crisis. Excellent website accompanies the film. 
	Save Happy Valley 
	8 mins. 
	2004
	In June of this year, state-owned Solid Energy was granted resource
consents for a new opencast coal mine at Happy Valley, in the upper
Waimangaroa Valley, near Westport. Concerns about climate change, acid mine
drainage, river pollution and habitat destruction have resulted in
opposition to the mine by both local and national groups and the formation
of a national campaign against the mine following a campout protest at the
proposed minesite by student activists. These concerns are only magnified by
Solid Energy's atrocious environmental record. This video shows the problems
the locals have had with Solid Energy and their response to the proposed
mine. For further information, visit happyvalley.enzyme.org.nz or email
savehappyvalley at enzyme.org.nz 
	The Anitidote is a regular forum for the exposure of alternative
political filmmaking and media art. This is the eigth screening presented by
Auckland Indymedia. For more information contact auckland at indymedia.org