[Sfbay-video] Fwd: 500 Miles To Babylon screens Friday October 20th, Station 40

[a. mark liiv]

>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:50:17 -0700
>From: moleverde at riseup.net
>Subject: 500 Miles To Babylon screens Friday October 20th, Station 40
>
>
>This Friday at Station 40
>3030B 16th Street @ Mission
>8:00 p.m.
>$5 requested donation
>
>Whew! Two years of editing, fundraising, and procrastination have 
>resulted in a one-hour film! Of course, finishing a film is only the 
>beginning of the work, and now I have to get the film seen.
>
>And so, this Sunday I will depart for the New York to begin a tour 
>of the East Coast and Midwest that will take me through mid-December.
>
>Before I leave, I wan to show what I have been laboring over to all 
>my friends and supporters in the bay. I apologize for the late 
>notice but we just secured the location last night!
>
>I will be posting complete dates of the tour on the website 
>(www.graffitifilms.com), in the meantime a partial list follows. 
>Please tell anyone who may be interested.
>
>Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday!
>
>DM
>
>
>  October 22: New York
>Bluestockings
>7 pm
>
>
>October 24: Long Island
>  StonyBrook
>  7 p.m.
>
>
>October 28: Syracuse
>Sparks Cinema
>
>
>October 30: Pittsburgh, PA
>  Thomas Merton Center
>
>October 31: Columbus, OH
>  Mad Labs
>
>November 2: Cleveland, OH
>  C-Space
>  7.30 p.m.
>
>November 3: Detroit, MI
>  Trumbull
>  4210 Trumbull Detroit 48208,
>  film to begin at 8:30
>  $5 cover
>
>  November 4: Detroit, MI
>  Detroit Film Center
>
>  November 5: Grand Rapids MI
>  GRIID
>  $5 at the door
>
>  November 6: Bloomington IN
>  Boxcar Books
>
>November 7: Chicago, IL
>  Chicago Independent Media Center
>
>November 8: Open
>
>  November 9: Milwaukee WI
>  Darling Hall
>  $3 at the door, 80 capacity
>
>
>  November 10: Madison WI
>  UW Madison
>
>
>  November 11: open
>
>  November 12: Minneapolis:
>  Macalester/Twin Cities IMC
>
>  November 13: Minneapolis
>Organizer: Krista web at mppeace.org
>St John's Episcopal Church, 60 Kent St, St Paul
>$5 donation
>Sponsored by: Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace and Crocus Hill/West 
>7th Neighbors for Peace
>For more info: info at mppeace.org
>
>  November 14-16
>  Montreal
>
>November 17-21 DC Area
>
>November 18, DC (tentative)
>Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
>7pm @ the Brian Mackenzie Infoshop
>1426 9th st NW Washington,DC
>
>November 19: Richmond VA
>Virginia Commonwealth University, Commons Theater
>Time 7 p.m.
>
>November 21: Baltimore MD
>Red Emmas Infoshop
>
>
>
>500 MILES TO BABYLON
>directed by David Martinez
>16 Sherman Street San Francisco CA 94103
>415.255.6304 moleverde at gmail.com
>www.graffitifilms.com
>            500 Miles to Babylon is a one-hour documentary film about 
>Iraq under U.S. occupation. Narrated by the filmmaker, using footage 
>shot in Iraq during 2003-4, the film addresses the current war not 
>simply as a conflict over petroleum profits or a scheme to fill a 
>company?s coffers, but as part of a larger American imperial project.
>Through impromptu interviews, glimpses of daily life, still 
>photographs, and footage of car-bombs, demonstrations, night-time 
>graffiti artists, and the celebrations following Saddam?s capture, 
>500 Miles To Babylon reveals the situation in contemporary Iraq 
>through a cinema verite lens. More than a simple anti-war movie, 500 
>Miles? follows a journal-esque ?narrative of disintegration?, 
>showing the initial excitement of some sectors of the Iraqi 
>population after the U.S. military toppled Saddam Hussein, their 
>hope eroding as they watched their country sink into chaos and 
>violence in the months that followed.
>The film ends with the April 2004 assault on Fallujah, when all of 
>Iraq was rising against the Americans, and includes rare footage 
>from inside besieged Fallujah, where the filmmaker went with a group 
>of journalists and aid workers to deliver medical supplies and move 
>wounded civilians to Baghdad.
>
>If you are interested in arranging a sneak preview of the film, 500 
>Miles? will be touring the Midwest and East Coast of the U.S. in the 
>fall of 2006, prior to premiering at festivals. Please contact Jen 
>Angel at jen at clamormagazine.org for logistics.
>
>About the filmmaker: David Martinez is a journalist and filmmaker 
>originally from Texas. He has worked as a video correspondent in 
>Aceh, Indonesia as well as in Iraq where he worked with Prothap 
>Chatterjee (www.corpwatch.org) covering the U.S. occupation in 
>2003-4.
>As a filmmaker he has produced several shorts, including a segment 
>for the 2004 PBS series Visiones, executive produced by Hector Galan 
>(www.galaninc.com).  Most recently he produced one segment of a film 
>about music in Sumatra, Sumatran Folk Cinema, for the Sublime 
>Frequencies label(www.sublimefrequencies).
>Mr. Martinez currently makes his home in San Francisco.