SCREENINGS ARE A BENEFIT FOR
ARGENTINA'S INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
AND THE WHISPERED MEDIA VIDEO ACTIVIST
COLLECTIVE
Door at 7:30pm.
"This Swedish muckraker is
another must-see"
Seattle Weekly
"Surplus is an open declaration of
war on terror. We are terrorized into
being consumers" Adbusters
Magazine
Consumer confidence has been low since September 11. A quick war
against
Iraq was supposed to be the only way to restore that confidence - and
our
happiness. But is shopping our salvation? Do we have a
choice?
Whispered Media is proud to screen SURPLUS: TERRORIZED INTO
BEING
CONSUMERS by Swedish filmmaker Erik Gandini. SURPLUS screens
Thursday,
December 18th and Friday, December 19th at 8pm at Artists
Television
Access in San Francisco. Proceeds benefit the Argentina
Independent Media
Center and Whispered Media.
SURPLUS is an intense
visual odyssey filmed for over three years in eight
different countries. From
the explosive riot days in Genoa 2001 to $7000
sex dolls in the US, SURPLUS
explores the destructive nature of consumer
culture. Stunning editing and
breathtaking cinematography turns the notion
that 20% of the world is
gobbling up 80% of its resources from pure
statistics into an overwhelming
emotional experience.
The world was shocked when young protesters in
Seattle, Genoa and
Gothenburg attacked shop windows, cars and banks. SURPLUS
sets off on a
world journey seeking the answer to the question: why is the
lifestyle of
consumerism a source of such rage today? Against a familiar
backdrop of
cynical world leaders, corporate captains and Microsoft fanatics,
the film
focuses on the controversial anti-globalization guru John Zerzan,
whose
call for property damage has inspired many to take to the
streets.
Whispered Media offers video witnessing, support and training,
collects
archival political footage, and produces video and audio works
about
specific grassroots and global campaigns and organizations.
Whispered
Media produced the award winning documentaries "The Pie's the
Limit",
"Boom: The Sound of Eviction" and the recent collaboration "We
Interrupt
This Empire.". SURPLUS is the first film to screen in a new,
monthly,
screening series.
SURPLUS: http://www.atmo.se/zino.aspx?pageID=4&articleID=382
For more information, the public can call
Whispered Media at (415) 789
8484 or visit http://www.whisperedmedia.org.
