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Description of Film:  Zeitgeist Addendum examines the inner workings of the current financial system, from how the Federal Reserve operates to how the practice of charging Interest perpetuates injustice.  Using common language, director Peter Joseph shows as well the deceitfulness of the current system of International Trade and Extortion.  Collaborating with the Venus Project, Peter Joseph, Roxanne Meadows and Jacque Fresco put forward a bold way of reorganizing society for the genuine betterment of all persons.

 Zeitgeist SF is the Bay-Area regional meet-up dedicated to educating individuals about the principals of the Resource Based Economy and discussing its merits with interested parties.

Birgit Ulher was born 1961 in Nuremberg. She studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music. Since then she has ?established a distinguished grammar of sounds beyond the open trumpet? (jazzdimensions.de). She performs solo, with dancers, working ensembles, and one-time collaborations with musicians from around the world.

She has been organising the festival of improvised music Real Time Music Meeting for over ten years. Music performances in Europe, USA and the Middle East, together with UNSK (Birgit Ulher / Martin Küchen / Lise-Lott Norelius / Raymond Strid), the Trio PUT (with Ulrich Phillipp and Roger Turner), Nordzucker (with Lars Scherzberg and Michael Maierhof), Heiner Metzger, Jürgen Morgenstern, Martin Klapper, Tim Hodgkinson, Dorothea Schürch, Rhodri Davies, Robyn Schulkowsky, John Edwards, Michael Zerang, Damon Smith, Lou Mallozzi, Gino Robair, Martin Blume, Ute Wassermann, Albert Márkos, Sven Ake Johansson, Gene Coleman, Ernesto Rodrigues, Heddy Boubaker, Tim Perkis, Nate Wooley, Bryan Eubanks, Tanaka, Ariel Shibolet, Christoph Schiller and Sean Meehan. Website:  http://birgit-ulher.de

Gino Robair is an American composer, improvisor, drummer, and percussionist. In his own work (as a soloist and in improvisation  ensembles), he plays prepared/modified percussion, analog synthesizer, ebow and prepared piano, theremin, and bowed objects (polystyrene, customized/broken cymbals, faux daxophone, metal). Although Gino is often referred to as a jazz musician, he grew up playing both rock and concert music. Gino Robair was an editor of Electronic Musician magazine, and runs Rastascan Records. Website: http://www.rastascan.com

Bill Hsu works with electronics and live animation systems. He has performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a founding member of the Beanbender’s collective, which organized over 150 concerts of new music in the San Francisco Bay area. He teaches and does research at San Francisco State University. Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~whsu/art.html

All across Brazilian cities irregular buildings sprawl, piling up like honeycombs. Favelas and dilapidated houses are a focal point of urban poverty. Departing from a reflection on these precarious places, this film tries to track a different kind of urbanization and takes the viewers into the life of their inhabitants. The film accompanies urban protagonists in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and documents political, economic and cultural alternatives to social exclusion..

Favelas can be thought of as a materialization of the social exclusion that affects their inhabitants. Though crowded with people, lacking infrastructure, and manifesting cultural and economical discrimination, favelas are nevertheless places of solidarity and laboratories of political, economic and cultural alternatives. This documentary explores the practices of empowerment developed by various institutions in their struggle for a better life and interrelates issues such as community development, education, social history, favela culture and ”economia solidaria”.

Urban Research in Emancipatory Struggles is maintained by a network of people from Japan, Brazil, Germany and the USA.  An open group with different backgrounds (Students, Scientists, Translators, Workers, Activists, Artists, Unemployed etc.) that came together to work on questions of social exclusion, urbanism (e.g. right to the city) and social movements. They see their activities not only as a reflection on exclusion and empowerment but also as a part of different social struggles. If you want to engage or participate please contact: urps@ymail.com

http://urbanrps.wordpress.com/favela-brazil/