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In its 4th year at the California College of Arts, Guillermo Galindo’s  performance art/diversity studies class Primeval Intersection has become an absolute classic.

During the last two years, ATA has opened its doors to CCA’s Primeval Intersection students to perform new experimental work. This annual event,  has become a unique and well attended tradition.

Come and join CCA’s Primeval Intersection Fall 08 students in  this very special performance which will explore the meaning dreams,  personal relations and the connections between art and the unconscious.

Shadow Company by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque

Shadow Company
by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque (Canada, 2007, 85 minutes)

Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque’s Shadow Company examines the profession of the “private security contractor,” the most recent euphemism for the age-old profession of the mercenary. Nick Bicanic trained with Blackwater in order to make this film which follows some of the private security contractors in Iraq, where the use of private military companies (PMCs) is far more extensive than in any other war in modern history. The film also explores other sites of contemporary conflict where mercenaries play a significant role and examines the history of the profession through interviews with war journalists, historians, ethicists, soldiers and mercenaries themselves.

“With over

$100 billion in annual revenues and 70,000 employees in Iaq alone, the private military industry is booming, yet few cvilians know anything about it. It’s time we all started asking the question: What are we really risking by allowing profit-motivated corporations into the business of war?” – Film directors Bicanic and Bourque

“Fascinating, evenhanded documentary about the big business of guns for hire. Flourishes of style – comic-book illustrations, video-game scenes and news footage swirled together in an Oliver Stone-esque mélange — give a flavor of the personalities involved while academics and security experts fill in the historical and political context.” – LA Weekly

Kino21 regrets that due to unavoidable circumstances concerning international screening rights, we are not able to screen Romuald Karmakar’s Warheads for its final HOW WE FIGHT: Mercenaries program.  Instead, we are substituting a free screening of the also excellent and excellently titled Canadian film Shadow Company, a work which takes us back where we started the series:  Iraq today.

Artists’ Television Access  is proud to present a program of works by video artist Wago Kreider. Working from soundtracks borrowed from classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, layered with lush images that re-create their original locations, Wago Kreider creates a dream-filled landscape of cinematic memory. The ghosts of Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, and Joan Crawford are conjured, their uncanny voices linking dead celluloid to a living and breathing present. The classic films Niagara, Vertigo, and Johnny Guitar are re-enacted in his videos Capturing Rose, Between 2 Deaths, and Vienna in the Desert. Director in person.

Wago Kreider is a media artist whose work investigates the legacy of classical Hollywood film history, and its relation to issues of place, landscape, and authorship. Stylistically, many of his videos explore the perceptual changes and conceptual impact of the micro-edit, in which staccato montage rhythms manipulate appropriated imagery like phrases in a musical composition. He is co-curator, along with Jessica Allee, of the San Francisco based avant-garde film and video screening series Studio 27. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Video in the Media Arts program at Southern Illinois University.