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DESCRIPTION:Information Warfare: film & video screening and discussion  Intersection 
 for the Arts  446 Valencia Street, SF  Saturday, November 20  2 - 4 pm  
 FREE    If information, in itself, is a key aspect of national, global, 
 commercial, and political power, how is the information we consume 
 manipulated and delivered? Please join us for an afternoon film and video 
 screening exploring propaganda in times of war. Composed of a collection of 
 excerpts and shorts, this screening will feature films ranging from a 
 historical look at 1940s Hollywood-made American WWII propaganda, to a film 
 about culture-jamming and billboard-liberation antics.  A discussion with 
 filmmakers and media activists will follow the screening.  Featuring Louise 
 Vance, independent documentary filmmaker and  Crescent Diamond, Berkeley 
 Community Media programmer and video activist  ****  -Why We Fight (1943)  
 Produced by the U.S. Government War Activities Committee and directed by 
 Hollywood legend Frank Capra, this 7-hour series was designed to rally U.S. 
 troops to fight in WWII. Released theatrically to a pre-television American 
 audience, the series also aimed to convince a reluctant American public to 
 support America's entry into the war.  -Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary 
 (2002)  Traudl Junge, one of Adolf Hitler's private wartime secretaries, 
 offers some thoughts about manipulating a nation's conscience, and what she 
 was told would happen to Germany if the National Socialists' mission did 
 not succeed.  -Faces of the Enemy:  Reflections on the Hostile Imagination 
 (1987)  Diffucult questions such as: Who are our enemies?  How and why do 
 we transform them into monsters? are tackled in this excerpt about 
 soldiers' experiences in Vietnam.  -Control Room (2003)  Looks at the Al 
 Jazeera television network and its coverage of the U.S. war on Iraq, 
 including questions of objectivity and the killing of one of its 
 correspondents by American missile fire in Baghdad. Control Room is a 
 documentary that explores how truth is gathered, presented and ultimately 
 created by those who deliver it.  -Talk Mogadishu: Media Under Fire(2003)  
 A decade after the disastrous U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, 
 HornAfrik, the first independent television and radio station in 
 war-ravaged Mogadishu, was established by three Somali-Canadians in the 
 face of chaos and devastation.  Their vision: to forge a path to peace 
 through freedom of expression, impartial news and debate, despite sometimes 
 deadly opposition.  -Popaganda:  The Art and Subversion of Ron English 
 (2003)  A short film about the culture-jamming and billboard-liberation 
 antics of Ron English. Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents and 
 satirizes modern culture on canvas, in songs, and directly on hundreds of 
 pirated billboards.  -Vision Test (2004) Computer animation  What begins as 
 a routine eye exam turns into an examination of people's subconscious 
 attitudes towards race, gender and power.  -Just Say It: A Revolution in 
 the Making (2004)  A new documentary film about becoming an artist, making 
 a revolution and just trying to say what you mean. Starring the artists:  
 Michael Franti, Susan Appe, Boots Riley, Diskarte Namin, Nelli Wong, 
 Favianna Rodriguez and the filmmakers, Jennifer Gilomen and Jessica 
 Dorfman.    ******    Louise Vance brings more than twenty-five years of 
 high-level experience and top filmmaking honors to her role as media 
 producer/director/writer.  Her achievements include extensive national 
 credits in television documentary, news and interview programs, as well as 
 interactive CD-ROM, web-based learning and educational video. In 1985, 
 Louise produced, directed and wrote the acclaimed two-hour TBS documentary, 
 Iran: Behind the Veil, which garnered national attention as the first look 
 inside Iran since the Islamic Revolution. Louise is currently in 
 post-production on her independent documentary film, Seneca Falls, the 
 story of nine teenage girls bound for the birthplace of women’s rights in 
 America.  Crescent Diamond has been involved in independent film and video 
 production for the last six years. She has produced projects that range 
 from the highly experimental to the traditional forms of advertising, 
 journalism, documentary and drama.  She recently finished co-directing  
 part one in a series of educational films for youth called: The Silence of 
 Sex. Currently, Crescent is working with  Radical Transmissions on Street 
 Level TV, a monthly social-justice news program for the Bay Area.  Crescent 
 teaches video production and coordinates two public access television 
 stations at Berkeley Community Media.  \n\nThis screening is in conjunction 
 with a gallery exhibit: \n\nPaper Bullets: A War of Words\nOctober 6 
 through November 20, FREE\nOpening Reception: Wednesday October 6, 
 6pm\n\nThis ambitious project combines new work by Sandow Birk, Amanda 
 Eicher, René\nGarcia, Mondo Jud Hart, Packard Jennings, Kara Maria, 
 Patrick Piazza,\nWinston Smith & Christine Wong with material from a 
 50-year survey of\npsychological warfare & military propaganda 
 (specifically leaflets dropped\nfrom the sky to weaken, scare, and divide 
 military and civilian populations\nin times of war) from the collection of 
 Stephen J. Hasegawa. Examining how\ngraphics, propaganda, and psychological 
 operations have evolved as critical\ntools in armed conflict. The nine 
 participating artists engage with this\nhistory by creating new work that 
 responds and re-contextualizes.\n\nATTENDANT EVENTS\n\nMedia Literacy in 
 Times of War: Just Think teaches young people to\nunderstand the words and 
 images in media, and to think for themselves\nSaturday, October 23, 
 2pm\n\nDo It Yourself: Agitprop for Beginners\nSaturday November 6, 
 2pm\n\nTerror Through the Looking Glass: A presentation on the history 
 behind\nWestern images of Islam with Simon Kenrick\nSaturday November 13, 
 2pm\n\nInformation Warfare: Film & video screening and discussion\nSaturday 
 November 20, 2pm\n\n\nwww.theintersection.org\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/16/52243.php
SUMMARY:Information Warfare : Film & Video
LOCATION:Intersection for the Arts  446 Valencia Street  San Francisco, CA 
 94103\n\nwww.theintersection.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/16/52243.php
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