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

[miruna maria]

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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