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Thursday June 24th, 9 p.m.
Zeitgeist Addendum (2009) 123 minutes
'Zeitgeist, The Movie' and 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' were created as
Not-for-Profit expressions to communicate what the author felt were
highly important social understandings which
most humans are generally not aware of. The first film focuses on
suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant
social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store for
humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of
self-interest, corruption, and consolidation.
The second film, Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root
causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a
solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or
any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a
modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how
we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a
new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly
influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.
Thursday July 22nd, 9:30 p.m.
Beautiful Losers (2008) 90 minutes
Beautiful Losers, an endearing film about a tight-knit group of
artistic friends borne loosely out of a legendary, now-defunct New
York gallery called Alleged, heightens one's awareness of how
cultural scenes can be forged and maintained through long-term
documentation. Since the beginnings of this group in the early 1990s,
filmmaker, curator, and ex-Alleged director Aaron Rose has undertaken
the gargantuan task of forming and chronicling an American artistic
community through museum shows, an art catalog from which the
Beautiful Losers film borrows its name, and finally, a full-length
feature documentary. --Trinie Dalton
Thursday August 26th, 9:30 p.m.
Slingshot Hip Hop (2008) 80 minutes
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians
living in occupied Palestine as they discover Hip Hop and employ it
as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.
From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and
generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing
the borders that separate them.
Thursday September 23, 9:30 p.m.
Freestyle: The Art of the Rhyme (2000) 75 minutes
Directed by rising filmmaker Kevin Fitzgerald (a.k.a. DJ Organic),
FREESTYLE: THE ART OF RHYME documents the freestyle scene from the
early 1980s through the present day, featuring a who's who list of
seminal hip-hop figures including MC Supernatural, Mos Def, Roots
members Black Thought & Questlove, Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur,
Freestyle Fellowship, Lord Finesse, Cut Chemist, Craig G, DJ Kool
Herc, Juice, Boots of the Coup, Medusa, Planet Asia, MTV's Sway,
Crazy Legs, Jurassic 5 members Cut Chemist, DJ Numark & Chali Tuna,
Wordsworth, Bobbito Garcia, and The Last Poets, providing a rarely
seen portrait of hip hop that is at once entertaining, historical,
and educational.
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