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"The Fourth World War" at the Showroom

sheff imc | 23.04.2004 21:33 | Globalisation | Indymedia | Sheffield

Sheffield Indymedia presents The Fourth World War at the Showroom in Sheffield on Sunday 2nd May at 6pm.

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While American airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human face of war is rarely seen. The Fourth World War weaves together the images and voices of the war on the ground - from the front lines of struggles in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, ‘the North’ from Seattle to Genova, and the ‘War on Terror’ in New York and Iraq.

The product of over two years of filming, The Fourth World War is a new kind of film for a new world. The intensity and immediacy of its images are beyond anything the mainstream media can shoot, the intimacy and passion of its stories are beyond anything it can feel. Narrated by Tony Award winner Suheir Hammad and Singer Michael Franti of Spearhead, it is a radical story of hope and human connection in the face of a war that shatters and divides.

"THE FOURTH WORLD WAR is a daring, courageous, heart-pounding intervention against empire. It heralds a remarkable, inspiring cinematic achivement that completely reprograms the vectors of politically engaged documentary to protest the new face of war in the 21st century. It fights the new endless war without end with megadoses of guts and hope.”
- Patricia R. Zimmermann, author, States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies

“Passionate, euphoric, contagious. . . It is our worlds against their system.”
-IDFA, Amsterdam

For more information including trailer see:  http://www.bignoisefilms.com/

See also:  http://www.showroom.org.uk/

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Diy films

29.04.2004 14:17

will i be able to get hold of books and other info, vidz, DVDs at this film showing? In the absence of any decent outlet in this city for underground stuff it'd be smart if we could use these kind of events to buy films/ political books etc. for cash. Be easier than buying from websites especially if you don't have a credit card thingy...

small is beautiful (when plentiful)


an impressive film

05.05.2004 10:45

I saw the film on Sunday, although polemical and clearly a partisan film for anti-capitalism, this was an incredible fim: artistically it was beautiful to look at, very well shot with high production values and a brilliant and moving sound track. The use of collage and colour filters was extremely imaginative and added a lot to the film. Politically, it was a call to arms, (though, pacifists would may have some problems with it priveledging at it did the use of the slingshot and the molotov.) It's major premise, that we are now in a new fourth world war: globalised capital against the people, is not new, but the examples shown in the film: lay offs in S.Korea, trampling indigenous rights in Chiapas, privitisation in S.Africa, occupation in Palestine, etc, and the consequent resistance to all this was very convincing. Unfortunately, there were not many people there to see it, perhaps being a bank holiday. It needs to be seen across the city, more showings please.

sheffer


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12.05.2004 03:35

Agree with "Sheffer" about the film. Everyone should see it, and regularly, like all Anti-war and anti-capitalist films.
Lynda(reluctantly) and I, went to see it and, at the end we were in tears and were also applauding it(Similar reactions on seeing "The Pianist" film in 2003.)
It reminds us all, once again, that WE ARE in solidarity and struggle(however much people dislike using those terms) with our brothers, sisters, comrades on those 5 continents.
I THANK all those who have been determined, courageous, brave and imprisoned,beaten or killed, in their attempts to be free, human, peaceful and dignified. Also those who have, perhaps been less peaceful in their endeavours in relation to "the struggle", I salute you, in a non-military way. Just human.
As Jo Wilding says repeatedly in her April report from the very front line of the killing grounds of Fallujah, If I dont do it,(collecting injured and dead from the streets),who will?
Perhaps we(activists and campaigners) do well to remember - "If not now, WHEN?, If not US, WHO?".
Regards and best, in peace. Smiley Steve.

Smiley Steve
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