Monday Night — 04.28.03 — Screening + Streaming Event
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the marathon of events
continues:
a. Screening of Anand Patwardhan’s
Jang Aur Aman [War and Peace]
b. Francois Bucher’s “Television
(an address)” with Keith Sanborn
Please also note that Bucher’s
project is a streamed event,
so it will be accessible to
anyone with a DSL, cable, T1
connection + quicktime.
more details below
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Contents:
1. About this Monday
2. Details for Jang Aur Aman [War and Peace]
3. Details for “Television (an address)”
http://www.operationhow.org/calendarnewyork.htm
http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday042803.htm
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1. About This Monday
What: Screening + Streamed Event
When: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Where: 16 Beaver Street
First off we would like to thank, Francois Bucher, Anand Patwardhan, and
Keith Sanborn for making what is the last night of Operation How, Now, Wow
into what looks to be a very special evening.
We will begin the evening by screening, “War and Peace”. Since the film
is broken up in chapters, we will stop for an intermission near 9:00pm, at
that time we will project a live stream of Keith Sanborn addressing
television.news.
For those of you who will not be able to attend, but are interested in
joining the live stream online, please see details below.
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2. Details for Jang Aur Aman [War and Peace]
War and Peace [Jang Aur Aman]
Directed by: Anand Patwardhan
Time: 148 minutes
Year: 2001 (VHS)
Language: English
Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the
United States, after the 1998 nuclear tests on the Indian sub-continent,
WAR AND PEACE is the long awaited new film by India’s leading documentary
filmmaker, Anand Patwardhan. It documents the current, epic journey of
peace activism in the face of global militarism and war.
Divided into six chapters, the film is framed by the murder of Mahatma
Gandhi in 1948. This act of violence was so profound, its portent and
poignancy remain undiminished 50 years later. As a child filmmaker
Patwardhan was immersed in the non-violent Gandhian movement. Because of
this he, in WAR AND PEACE, examines India’s trajectory towards naked
militarism with sorrow, although along the way the film captures joyful
stories of courage and resistance.
Amongst these chapters is a visit to the “enemy country” of Pakistan,
where, contrary to expectations, Indian delegates are showered by
affection, not only by their Pakistani counterparts in the peace movement,
but by ordinary citizens who declare without caution that “hate is the
creation of politicians.”
WAR AND PEACE examines not merely the militarization of India, but
analyzes the human cost that is extracted from its citizens in the name of
‘National Security.’ From the plight of residents living near the nuclear
test site, and the horrendous effects of uranium mining on local
indigenous populations, it becomes clear that, contrary to a myth first
created in the U.S., there is no such thing as the “peaceful Atom.”
Scientific research has been hijacked by the war machine, only a handful
of practitioners remind us of its potential to fulfill the genuine needs
of the people.
Going beyond the story of South Asia, WAR AND PEACE follows the
extraordinary visit of Japanese Atom Bomb survivors after the Indian and
Pakistani nuclear tests. Their visit becomes the impetus for a
re-examination of events that led to the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Were these bombs necessary? American historians who recently
curated an exhibit about this issue for the Smithsonian Museum in
Washington DC were amazed to find their voices suppressed.
WAR AND PEACE slips seamlessly from its analysis of homemade jingoism to
focus on how an aggressive United States has become a Foreign Relations
role model. The unofficial U.S. doctrine of ‘Might Makes Right’ is only
too well absorbed and emulated by aspiring Third World elites.
As we enter the 21st century, enemies are being re-invented, economies are
inextricably tied to the production and sale of weapons, and in the moral
wastelands of the world, war has become perennial. Memories of Gandhi
seem like a mirage that never was, created by our thirst for peace and our
very distance from it.
“The film itself is a tour de force, beautifully shot and often darkly funny
and much more riveting than the dry subject matter might suggest.”
– Duncan Campbell, The Guardian
“We should listen to our voices of dissent for our own sake and for that of
our children and their children. WAR AND PEACE is that voice’s most
eloquent expression. Which is why it should be seen by everyone everywhere.
In schools, in colleges, in factories, on television. Urgently and often.”
– The Times of India
“Perhaps the most important film in this year’s Berlin Film Festival.” –
Reuters
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3. Details for “Television (an address)”
Monday 28th April at 9:00 pm EST (New York)
Keith Sanborn addresses the news.
About this Project
A guest is invited to sit in front of a television holding a live microphone
in one hand and a remote control to shift through the News Channels in the
other. What appears on the TV monitor is streamed alongside the voice of
the guest who is addressing the news that he/she is watching live. An
archive will be created online (web address to be determined) and a
compilation will be eventually edited from the most significant moments of
each session.
About this week’s guest
Keith Sanborn is a media artist and theorist based in New York. His work has
been included in the Whitney Biennial twice, numerous one person shows and
festivals such as OVNI (Barcelona), The Rotterdam International Film
Festival, Hong Kong Videotage, and Ostranenie (Dessau). His theoretical work
has appeared in exhibition catalogues published by MOMA, (New York), Exit
Art (New York), and the San Francisco Cinematheque among others. He has
translated the work of Guy Debord, René Viénet, Gil Wolman, and Georges
Bataille. Some of his articles and interviews can be found at
bbs.thing.net.
Instructions
Please drag the attached icon to your desktop. Tonight’s stream will be
suitable only for high speed connections (DSL, Cable, T1, etc..). You may
need to download Quicktime 6.1.1 at
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ (itsfree). Once you have
Quicktime, click on the icon at any time after 12pm on Monday the 28th to
confirm that you are receiving the stream. If you still can’t get the
stream go to “quicktime preferences” under “preferences”, then click on
“connection”, then “transport setup”, then choose http as your transfer
protocol. Once the player buffers you should be able to see an image. If
you lose the signal please close the player and open a new one. If you
have problems write an email back and we will try to work it out. Once you
know the stream is being received by your computer close the player and
click again at:
The link to the live stream and instructions for setting
QuickTime player are also available on:
http://open4all.info/add-news/04_28_03
The project is still in its testing period.
This project has been developed in collaboration with Drazen Pantic.