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Strike Films → Discussion: Ad Hoc Vox & 16 Beaver
When: Friday April 27, 2012 – 7pm
Where: 16 Beaver, 16 Beaver Street # 4th floor, New York City
Who: Curated by The Film Detective; organized by Ad Hoc Vox
What: Introduction and full screening program
Ad Hoc Vox and 16 Beaver Group are pleased to invite you to I Am Not Going Back!: an evening of films and discussions. This event will take cinema as a springboard to collectively redefine the meanings and tactics of strike in response to the international call for a General Strike on May 1st, which in New York has also been named A Day Without the 99%.
In 1885, the brothers Lumière’s 45 second scene entitled Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon marks the beginning of film history. In 1995, filmmaker Harun Farocki in Workers Leaving the Factory meticulously examines this theme of workers leaving the space of production. His case study spans fiction, documentaries, newsreels, and industrial and propaganda films. Farocki remarks that the factory has become one of the most neglected film locations since “most narrative films take place in that part of life where work has been left behind.”
In our next film, we shift our focus to a blind spot within this marginalized genre, the moment in which workers return to the factory. The moment after the strike is almost never included in strike narratives. In this respect, Jacques Willemont’s La Reprise du Travail aux Usines Wonder (Resumption of Work at The Wonder Factory)—a documentary only of …
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Radivojević & Starosta at CUNY Conference
Friday, April 27, 2012
CUNY Grad Center, 365 Fitfth Avenue, NYC
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
Our Community, Our Causes: Case Studies
Moderator: Dennis Chin, Communications Coordinator, Center of Social Inclusion
Presenters:
Elisabeth R OuYang, President, Organization of Chinese Americans – NY Chapter
Topic: Danny Chen – How OCA-NY Harnessed the Power of Community
Martyna Starosta & Iva Radivojević, Filmmakers
Topic: “Are You With Me?” – Documentary on Occupy Wall Street and Louis Reyes Rivera
See full conference program: here
The conference is organized by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) of the City University of New York (CUNY). AAARI is a university-wide scholarly research and resource center that focuses on policies and issues that affect Asians and Asian Americans.
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Tagged AAARI, Asian American/Asian Research Institute, City University of New York, Conference, cuny, Iva Radivojevic, Louis Reyes Rivera, The Power of Place
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The Art of The Interview at Trade School
Crash-course with Martyna Starosta
Saturday, April 7 from 4pm to 5.30pm
Trade School at Chuchifritos, 120 Essex Street, New York
Sign up: here
The interview is not a defined method, it’s an exciting way to create social relationships.
Do you interview strangers, family members, friends, experts, celebrities, role-models, enemies?
Do you interview them on the street? In their kitchens? In their workplaces? In a studio? In a park? In a car? In a dinner?
Do you ask questions to understand the decisions of a character? To investigate the complexities of a social conflict? To find evidence for a crime? To reveal the hypocrisy of those in power? To question your own position as a media-maker? To provide clarity? To create confusion? To raise new questions?
We will brainstorm different interview goals and collaborate on developing the most effective ways to face these challenges.
For people who make films, produce podcasts, practice journalism, facilitate discussions, conduct research, teach interactions. And for everybody who wants to contribute to this entertaining learning experience.
Suggested reading:
Can Witnesses Speak? – On the Philosophy of The Interview by Hito Steyerl
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Visiting Artist at the Filmmaking Class of NYU Gallatin
April 3, 2012
NYU Gallatin, Washington Place 1, NYC
6-9pm
Martyna Starosta gives feedback to the filmmaking students at NYU Gallatin. She is in the company of fellow filmmakers Alex Mallis, Jeremy Levine, Lily Henderson, Nick Weissman and Joylynn Holder. This visit is organized and facilitated by Keith Miller.
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Radivojević & Starosta at Occupy The Media
Iva Radivojević & Martyna Starosta participate in a panel
on the Role of Independent Media
Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective presents:
October 20th, 7:30pm
The Commons
388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn
In just under three weeks over 10,000 videos about Occupy Wall Street have been created and uploaded online. These videos – revealing police excess, marches, general assemblies and more formal documentaries covering the nature and processes of the movement – are helping to activate and proliferate the movement worldwide.
The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective will host a discussion and screening looking at the practice and theory of covering a social movement through video. Four of the most viewed videos from Occupy Wall Street (with over 600,500 views to date) will be presented by the Brooklyn filmmakers who created them.
Guest moderator Martin Lucas, director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA program at Hunter College and a senior fellow at the Center for Health Media Policy, will lead a discussion on the role of video in social movements, the coverage of Occupy Wall Street, and the potential challenges of the overwhelming amount of media coming out of Occupy Wall Street today.
Films:
Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution by Iva Radivojevic & Martyna Starosta, 8 min
Right Here All Over by Alex Mallis, Lily Henderson & Ed David, 7 min
@OccupyTheHood, Occupy Wall Street by Adele Pham, 3 min
Consensus by Meerkat Media Collective, 8 min
Links:
http://occupyvideos.org/
http://occupywallst.org
http://occupytogether.org
http://brooklynfilmmakerscollective.com
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