featuring: Mark Bukowiecki, Sandra Guerreiro, Theresa Baker, Dianne Gilleece, and Isabella Pelissier

presented by blue garrote collective

Friday and Saturday, Nov 21 & 22 at 8pm

@ Rust Belt Books
202 Allen St.
Free (Donations welcome)

So we are having another German radio day. Please tune in and try on another flavor of radio. It is a crazy mix of Bau auf, Bau auf and Freddy Quinn and Nina Hagen to Bluemchen and Stefan Raab. There is even the DragonBallZ theme from German television. I like to think of it as Germany through the years, hahaha.

To tune in simply click on the link Elmwood Online Radio under the userPic. Alternatively, you can click this

Join us this Friday, Nov 21, 2003 at 8pm for two films that explore the image of power and the power of the image.

Where: Squeaky Wheel, 175 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14201
716-884-7172
www.squeaky.org (http://www.squeaky.org)
Admission: $5 members/$4 non-members



THE FILMS:

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD

(Diane Nerwen, video, color, 5 mins)

In The Thief of Baghdad (2003), Diane Nerwen continues her practice of appropriating arresting imagery from film and mixing it with politically charged dialogue. Condensing the beauty and exoticism of the mystical capital of Baghdad, she slips in a newly realized paradigm of domination. As in much of her work, Nerwen explores the allure of place, film's ability to reflect and create desire, as well as the conceit that the video's images and soundtrack are part of same narrative.


IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR

(Harun Farocki, 16 mm, 75 mins.) German with English subtitles.

The German-Egyptian filmmaker Harun Farocki is one of the most influential documentarians alive today. His thought-provoking work is not as much about events and people as it is about ideas and mechanisms in a larger cultural context. A meditation on vision and power inspired by photos of Auschwitz taken by American bomber pilots during WW2, IMAGES OF THE WORLD creates striking, deeply meaningful connections between military reconnaissance and the state of the world.

V-P Dick Cheney is in Buffalo today to take part in a $1000/per plate fundraiser. There will be people protesting in the circle. Currently, a van from every news station is there.

While Cheney is here to collect a $1000/plate, let's let him no there'll be no free lunch in Buffalo.

Where -- Park Lane Restaurant, Gates Circle, Buffalo

When -- Monday, November 17, 4:30 PM SHARP

Today we will be having live radio shows on and off today, tune in and check it out. If not there will be music.