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Screening of the Argentinian film "i" + Intro + Q&A Session

Tash [alan lodge] | 13.10.2006 11:20 | Indymedia

Argentinian film makers including director Andres Ingoglia visited Nottingham as part of the european tour of their film "i". Over 60 people attended the screening which also hoped to inspire people about getting active in the local Notts Indymedia.

The film is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists: 'Indymedia'. The feature-length documentary follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a whirlwind of political upheaval.

Film Intro :: 5.5mins 1.4mb - mp3 1.3M

After Film Q&A Session :: 21mins 4.9mb - mp3 4.8M









Screening of the Argentinian film "i" + Intro + Q&A Session

Argentinian film makers including director Andres Ingoglia visited Nottingham as part of the european tour of their film "i".

The film is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists: 'Indymedia'. The feature-length documentary follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a whirlwind of political upheaval.

The film, screened as a one-off in Nottingham at the Sumac Centre on Thursday 12th October, where the film's director introduced the film and with a questions & answer session at the end. Veggies laid on tthe food, which was served from 6pm at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham. The film started at 7.30pm

During its UK tour the film is also screened in London, Brighton, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Schedule of screening in Europe  http://www.ithefilm.com/home/#Europe

About the Film:

“i” is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists — Indymedia. The feature-length documentary follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a whirlwind of political upheaval.

“i”'s non-linear structure mimics the network ideology it documents. The viewer encounters a series of interlocking events, parallel storylines, and related imagery that coalesce around a small group of individuals within Indymedia Argentina — who are themselves linked internally and externally to the forces that surround them. The film progresses through a series of "hyperlinked" excerpts from different media renderings of the upheaval, offering an exploration of the events themselves as well as the story-telling capabilities found in the embedded structure of information on the web.

This structure serves to illuminate the concepts of collective communication, horizontal organization and networked social action. The result is a fractal-like portrait, disclosing a repetition of form and phenomenon regardless of the scale at which it is examined. “i” uses the micro-scale of the individual collective to mirror and frame the macro-scale of the surrounding social movements, theoretical philosophies, organizations, and events.

In editing this film, Lyon and Ingoglia poured through hours of footage from several continents, looking for the resonant moments where these specific connections and intersections unfurled. This delicate process took four years and much meditation — as they sought to portray what at first glance might be a largely invisible phenomenon. What has emerged is not only a document of a particularly notable moment in history, but a profound testimony of the experience of unfolding network consciousness



'i' The Film website  http://ithefilm.com

Schedule of screening in Europe  http://www.ithefilm.com/home/#Europe

Argentina Indymedia  http://argentina.indymedia.org

and .... in Nottingham:

Nottinghamshire Indymedia  http://notts.indymedia.org.uk

Nottinghamshire Indymedia: Activities 'Slide-Show' Video
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/10/352479.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2006/10//352480.wmv

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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email:  tash@gn.apc.org
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Tash [alan lodge]
- e-mail: tash@indymedia.org
- Homepage: http://tash.gn.apc.org