An Evening of Incendiary Political FilmsIt's been an intense week, with local labor struggles, the Latin America Solidarity Coalition activities well underway, IMF and anti-war protesters coming into town, and an ever increasing array of TV news clips proclaiming W at 77 percent favorable. All this while imperial forces occupy Baghdad, Halliburton is making billions off the war and the Republican Senate ponders another tax break to the wealthy. TGIF indeed! So while we squirrel away time for our favorite protest, maybe we can squeeze a little fun into the weekend, too.
Who could resist a night billed as “Ain't Nothin' but an Occupation: A Week of Defiant Joy Through Performance, New York City Style"? It's on Sunday, April 13, at 7 p.m. at Visions Cinema, 1927 Florida Ave. NW. The feature presentation is a special rough-cut screening of "Everywhere But Florida: Cognitive Dissonance in Election 2000," directed by Matt Kohn.
“Everywhere but Florida” begins when the vote counting stopped and mainstream media coverage ended. The film explores the implications of the most controversial election in U.S. history and gives some suggestions about what we have to do now. After the screening, stay for a Q&A with the film's director and Jamie Raskin, Washington College of Law professor and author of
"Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People," currently number 8 on the Washington Post bestseller list.
The evening also includes the newly completed featurette "Emma's Footprints" and the trailer for "Horns and Halos," opening May 2 at Visions.
"Emma's Footprints" is a post-9/11 fable about a young anarchist member of a literary salon attempting to reconcile the past and present and reunite with his girlfriend and other cohorts. The film is directed by Central Park Summerstage co-founder Brian Keizer, produced by Guggenheim curator Marybeth Smalley, and scored by "Fight Club" composer Charles Goodan.
The trailer for "Horns and Halos," a film that captures the unlikely connection of three men -- a U.S. president, a discredited author and an underground publisher – whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President."
Admission is $10.
