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Bradley Roland Will (1970-2006) was a U.S.  documentary filmmaker and a journalist with Indymedia New York City. He was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers’ strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca.

    “At the night of octuber 27, 2006, my phone rang. It was a friend. Crying, he told me that a few hours earlier they killed Brad, with his camera on his hand, filming a barricade of the Oaxaca popular rebeliion, in Mexico. I was speechless. What can you say of such unexpected death of a friend?

That shot also hit me. Me and many other friends who like Brad dedicate their lives to be filming the social movements, but from another perspective, from inside, showing what the corporate media doesn’t want to see. This is our story.”

BLACK PEARL STEPCHILD
www.myspace.com/blackpearlstepchild

A local group originally born out of the music of Jimmy McGriff has grown and ventured out to the far reaches of Soul, R+B, Marching Band Music, and the deep roots of Larry Young, P-Funk and intergalactic insanity……… (with members of Wiggwaum, Sword and Sandals, Womans Worth, Ettrick, and Reagan’s Memory)

EVIL WIKKID WARRIOR

After his band Hale Zukas broke up on tour, bassist John Benson and daughter Quinn, who is now 10, embarked on a project that began as a movie concept about warriors fighting dragons. Quinn is the leader, and the adults do her bidding. Her newest songs are about Dumpster diving, going to Alaska, and hula-hooping. They are awesome, primitive drum-along headbangers delivered deadpan. Favorite recurring phrases are ‘I don’t know’ and ‘No way!’ – the latter directed toward the tyranny of homework (Geroge Chen, SFBG article)

http://www.myspace.com/evilwikkidwarrior

Still from The Diver Inside Me (2003) by Phie Ambo

Still from Kiosk (2007) by Hilde Stålskjær Osen

With two Scandinavian documentaries, exploring the first and last part of life, ATA introduces a new series, Global Undergrounds, featuring inspiring works from all over the world.

The Diver inside me (2003) by Phie Ambo 27 min. eng. subs
Sometimes the greatest happiness can make you afraid. A heavy pregnant woman has a nightmare. A pathologist with eight children is scared of dying. A little girl dives around the endless ocean, alone. Meanwhile the director says goodbye to death in order to give new life.

Kiosk (2007) by Hilde Stålskjær Osen 28 min. eng. subs
In the middle of Copenhagen there is a fenced-in institutional area where 600 people live the last part of their lives; The City of the Old. There is a cornershop and a church. Focusing on the kiosk we meet a wide range of people and experience their ups and downs as they routinely drop by to buy cigarettes and enjoy the company of others.

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Curated by Torben Olander