Artists' Television Access

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  • Czech Dream (Ceský sen)

    czeck dream

    Czech Dream documents the largest consumer hoax the Czech Republic has ever seen. Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, two of Eastern Europe’s most promising young documentary filmmakers, set out to explore the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad campaign for something that didn’t exist.

    The campaign (designed by a renowned advertising agency) involved television and radio spots, 400 illuminated billboards, 200,000 flyers promoting CZECH DREAM brand products, an advertising song, a website, and advertisements in newspapers and magazines. For two weeks, the streets of Prague were saturated with advertising for the fake hypermarket. The ads proclaimed: “Don’t Go, Don’t Rush, Don’t Spend” drawing over 4,000 people to turn up on the ‘opening day’. On May 31, 2003, they arrived at a green field where, instead of a hypermarket, they found just the dream hypermarket’s façade (10m high and 100m wide).

    Czech Dream is a funny and provocative look at the effects of rampant consumerism on a post-communist society. Czech Dream has also caused some controversy, provoking extreme reactions in the Czech people and media and even being discussed in Czech Parliament. With the recent entry of the Czech Republic and other Eastern European countries to the EU, and, with people’s changing attitudes to consumerism and globalization, it is equally relevant to capitalist societies all over the world.

    The film has won prizes at festivals in Kraków, Jihlava, Ljubljana and Århus.

  • Jam and Jive

    ezee tiger

    Performance by:

    Ezee Tiger 

    http://www.myspace.com/ezeetiger

    Reagan’s Memory

     http://www.springsteenrocks.com/reagans.htm

  • Wonder Show

    Wonder Show Promo

    Artists’ Television Access celebrates the cultural fringe in Wonder Show, an alchemical maelstrom of sound and vision. Wonder Show will feature a diabolic spectacle of moving image and sound filling every corner of our premises, with a kaleidoscopic grab bag of punk rock visions from videolusionist Dayv Jones along with electroconvulsive audio by Josh “Kit” Clayton in the main gallery space, and a special sideshow presentation in our petit storefront theatre with performances by Uni and Her Ukelele and Ryan Stively.

    Plus phantasmagoric anomalies from Craig Baldwin‘s Other Cinema archives. Baldwin welcomes the adventurous, for a long-term sitting or just a brief visit, into the Inner Sanctum, a hidden lair in the bowels of the gallery space, for an introduction, for both neophyte and fan, to the WONDERS of Japanese Monster-Movie history. Special guest-presenter David Cox conducts a fully-loaded guided tour, from the ’54 “Gojira” to the apocalyptic “Final Wars,” with heavy-metal amplification and cross-dressing geishas attending to otaku’s every sake wish. Don’t miss this surreal, one-night only, subterranean cinematic adventure. You can’t get any more underground than this!

    Delicious elixirs and tasty treats provided!

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