[spectre] 7th *Globale* Film Festival + the *Media Implosion* program

[podinski]

Dear Spectre film-goers and mediaheads,

The 7th *Globale* Film Festival begins next week in Berlin at Kino
Moviemento and runs November 3-9. Since 2003, *Globale* brings
pressing political issues to the screen and provides a space for
dialogue with filmmakers and special guests.

Themes in focus this year include:
* ENERGY
* MIGRATION
* FEMINIST FILM AND MOVEMENT
* RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA
* ARAB LANDS IN FOCUS
* CRISIS
* LAND GRABBING IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA
* LABOR CONDITIONS
* ROMA/DEPORTATION

See the full list of topics and program here:
http://globale-filmfestival.org/files/booklets/globale11.pdf

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AND Of special note to all the Spectres, this year we feature a block called :

* MEDIA IMPLOSION

A 3-part program in collaboration with The XLterrestrials and CiTiZEN
KiNO includes 2 screenings and a workshop seminar at C-Base with
special guests Marc Herbst (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest), Claudia
Becker from Vilem Flusser Achives, and Anne Roth from Annalist.

For an overview of the Media Implosion topic read below, and/or
follow some development of its themes online:
http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/

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* MEDIA IMPLOSION dates, locations, texts:

06.11.11 - Part 1: CiTiZEN KiNO at Moviemento, 20:30h
08.11.11 - Part 2: Media Implosion Seminar/Panel, C-base, 19:00h
09.11.11 - Part 3: Occupy The Cinema at Moviemento (evening, TBA)

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How do we see the world ? Through the 3 - 6 - 9 - 12 hours of various
media we navigate per day? Or by our community relations and actions?
Documentary films provide one of the most powerful mediums for sharing
in-depth perspective on urgent and complex issues. But when the media
landscape is veering towards a disembodied corporate/consumer
enterprise and everyone is drowning in a sea of information, we may be
left unable to adequately respond. One recourse may be
(self-)analysis, media self-defense and a new tactical cinema.


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Media Implosion Part 1:
( in eng + de )

Citizen Kino presents "The Screen Is Not The Territory"

Selected shorts ranging from Adam Curtis to ZumbaKamera to Anonymous.
The XLterrestrials, an arts + praxis laboratory, take you on an
interactive tour through a collection of pioneering works and media
flotsam. We do NOT provide a comfortable seat to passively download
and feed the endlessly hungry eye. We are shouting "Fire!" in the
all-consuming theater!  This is a program for Media Self-defense !

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Media Implosion Part 2:
( in eng )

Panel/Workshop w/ Anne Roth (Annalist ), Claudia Becker ( Flusser
Archives), Marc Herbst ( Journal of Aesthetics and Protest ) + Paolo
Podrescu ( XLterrestrials), etc.

We invite doc makers + new media ninjas, bloggers, hackers + global
citizens to analyze the ever-shifting media landscape. Surely we have
now "become the media", and we are all in, if not on, the Net!  A
world of Server Clouds, Gamefication, Virtual Migration,
Twitterization, Wikileaks, Social Networks, Data-Leeching +
Surveillance, Augmented Hypermarkets, etc.... all spilling over into
every corner of our lives, and voraciously eating up our days. Are we
empowering communities or are we feeding the corporate monster state?!
 Will an information society on this scale bring about liberation +
higher (collective) intelligence or be the final consumer mousetrap !?
And a discussion about “Tactical Cinema” in this precariously
digitized world.

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Media Implosion Part 3:

"Occupy The Cinema" - fresh clips from the multiple fronts around the
globe, with special guests !


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XLterrestrials' *GLOBALE* reports and analysis online....

Globale 2011 + A Tactical Cinema For DANGEROUS Times !
http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=7464

Media Implosion v.1: Bank-Lickers and Brain-feeders... unplugged !
http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=7563

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Hope you can join us !

the XLterrestrials



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*Globale* press release

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Liebe alle,

vom 03.- 09. November 2011 findet zum siebten mal das
*globale*-Filmfestival im Kino Moviemento statt. Die *globale* ist
seit 2003 ein ehrenamtliches Projekt von filmbegeisterten politischen
Menschen, die sich nicht mit den gesellschaftlichen Widersprüchen und
den brutalen Auswirkungen der neoliberalen Globalisierung abfinden
wollen. Wir zeigen Dokumentationen, Spiel- und Kurzfilme zu drängenden
politischen Fragen - wie gewohnt mit anschließenden
Publikumsgesprächen mit den Filmemacher_innen und/oder Referent_innen.

Die Themenblöcke in diesem Jahr sind:

* Energie
* Arabische Länder im Fokus
* Migration
* Feministischer Film und Bewegung
* Media Implosion
* Krise
* Indien
* Widerstand in Lateinamerika
* Falsos Positivos in Kolumbien
* Landraub in Sub-Sahara Afrika
* Erziehungspolitik in Sub-Sahara Afrika
* Arbeitsbedingungen
* Roma/Abschiebung
* 40 Jahre Rauch-Haus

Wir freuen uns auf Filmemacher_innen und Aktivist_innen u.a. aus Mali,
England, Griechenland, Italien, der Türkei.

Das komplette Programm findet ihr hier:
http://globale-filmfestival.org/files/booklets/globale11.pdf

Wir freuen uns auf euch!
Das globale-Team

http://globale-filmfestival.org/

Kino Moviemento
Kottbusser Damm 22
10967 Berlin
Kinokasse: 692 47 85

Press/Contacts:
"Lieke" <lieke at globale-filmfestival.org>
"Paolo" <pod at xlterrestrials.org>
globale Filmfestival
http://globale-filmfestival.org/

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