[Imc-romania] Fwd: more info about "i"

[Vlad Iorga]

in underworld se vor face din nou proiectzii dar organziate de tavi de
acolo. am vorbit cu el despre mai multe chestii, ii pot propune
oricind sa ducem un film la el

On 9/29/05, miruna maria <skatalitee at yahoo.com> wrote:
> da, vreau eu.
>
> --- "r. m. costescu" <ruxirandria at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > in alta ordine de idei, am mai primit inca un mesaj
> > de la tipii cu filmul "i" - avem vreun raspuns sa le
> > dam? vrea cineva sa vorbeasca macar cu ei, sau chiar
> > poate sa planifice sa obtina filmul si sa-l
> > proiecteze in romania (la bucuresti, cluj, sau - nu
> > stiu - iasi, constanta...??).
> >
> > spuneti.
> >
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Lexie Mountain / I The
> > Film <ithefilm at gmail.com> -----
> >
> > Hi Ruxandra,
> > I saw that you posted the info about "i" on a
> > message board - thank you very
> > much! I've included a better treatment of the film,
> > with links to the new
> > website and the Eye of the Storm trailer, please go
> > ahead and post this new
> > information.
> > Thanks & take care,
> > Lexie
> > --
> > Lexie Macchi
> > Mountain Lake Booking
> > 812 Powers St Baltimore MD 21211
> > 443 854 8753
> >
> > "i" THE FILM
> > http://ithefilm.com/
> > Shot in three continents, over the course of four
> > years, "i" weaves
> > experiences from throughout the global Indymedia
> > movement, with the workings
> > of a single node in Argentina. Expanding on the
> > explosive short/ trailer
> > "Eye of the Storm," "i" follows the first year of a
> > small collective in
> > Buenos Aires, as it struggles amidst assassinations,
> > a collapsing economy, a
> > whirlwind of political upheaval and a growing
> > movement for personal and
> > collective autonomy.
> >
> > "i" the film is a meditation on the relationship
> > between media and power as
> > it is manifested by the world's largest
> > all-volunteer network of media
> > activists – Indymedia. Organized to autonomously
> > link together independent
> > media makers of all types across hundreds of
> > different cities around the
> > world, Indymedia gives a "voice to the voiceless"
> > through cooperative
> > communication. Now, after five years, this network
> > has become a metaphor for
> > the power of decentralized communication and
> > autonomous action. Through it
> > we see a strange resonant frequency in thousands of
> > daily struggles
> > throughout the world, and the emergence of a new
> > kind of collective
> > intelligence and counter power- a strange amoeba of
> > contradictions, hope and
> > passion at odds with corporate imperialism.
> > Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia experienced the
> > collapse of the Argentinian
> > economy simultaneously, yet met for the first time
> > in Manhattan. Ingoglia, a
> > citizen of Buenos Aires, took the massive protests
> > to be a sign and moved to
> > New York. Lyon, holed up in an office of Indymedia,
> > labored over his footage
> > of those very same protests, until fate sent
> > Ingoglia to Lyon's door...
> > "I needed someone else, someone with filmmaking
> > experience, who shared the
> > politics and ideas that were driving the project,
> > and was from not just
> > South America, or Argentina - they had to be from
> > Buenos Aires. They had to
> > be a Poteño - and they had to be in New York City at
> > the moment. And I had
> > to find them in the next few days or I would have to
> > give up on the project.
> > This was the conversation I had over a phone line
> > that everyone assumed was
> > tapped. When the guy who I asked for arrived at the
> > door 10 hours later, I
> > didn't know what to think. I still don't."
> > It's been three years since Ingoglia startled Lyon
> > with his timeliness and
> > determination. Since then, the pair completed "Eye
> > of the Storm," a trailer
> > cum short film based on the original footage Lyon
> > shot on his first trip to
> > Buenos Aires. It showed at festivals across the US &
> > Europe, including
> > Rotterdam and the New York and Chicago Underground
> > Film Festivals, and was
> > translated into nearly a dozen languages.
> > After a short fundraising speaking tour Lyon and
> > Ingoglia returned to Buenos
> > Aires with the proper equipment and assimilated
> > themselves into the
> > Indymedia Buenos Aires collective for a period of
> > months. Going to meetings
> > and covering actions with the collective, the pair
> > did their best to make
> > friends among the whirlwind of actions and crisis
> > that were faced almost
> > daily.
> > Lyon and Ingoglia created "i" without corporate
> > funding or large individual
> > grants. The pair were determined from the beginning
> > of this process to prove
> > that a film like this, about network theory, could
> > be made through a
> > collective effort of sharing resources, time, advice
> > and interest.
> > Currently Lyon and Ingoglia are gearing up for the
> > "i" speaking/ preview
> > tour. Traveling with a rough cut version of the
> > film, Lyon and Ingoglia will
> > share their experiences with student groups,
> > activists and universities
> > across the US and South America from November
> > through February. Contact "i"
> > at booking at ithefilm.com
> > LINK TO EYE OF THE STORM SHORT FILM
> > http://www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/153176.php
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
> >
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