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In The DocHouse: SURPLUS & FOURTH WORLD WAR

Gus Berger | 15.06.2004 12:34 | Globalisation | Zapatista | London

The next In The DocHouse screening is a fantastic double bill examining the destructive and futile nature of excessive consumerism, the effect it has on the individual and the more devastating effect upon whole communities.

Sunday, June 20th at The Other Cinema, 4pm
and
Thursday, June 24th at The Ritzy, 6.45pm

SURPLUS


Director: Erik Gandini / Sweden / 2003 / 52 min


Surplus explores the destructive nature of consumer culture. Against a familiar backdrop of cynical world leaders, corporate captains and Microsoft fanatics the film focuses on the controversial anti-globalisation guru John Zerzan, whose call for property damage has inspired many to take to the streets.

An intense visual odyssey filmed over three years in eight countries, from the explosive riots in Genova to $7000 sex dolls in the US to George W Bush’s famous "just keep shopping" speech.

Stunning editing and cinematography turns the notion that 20% of the world is gobbling up 80% of its resources from pure statistics into an overwhelming emotional experience.



In The DocHouse will also be showing;


The Fourth World War

Big Noise Films / USA / 2003 / 76 mins.


While Western airwaves are crowded with sensational war footage, narrated by generals in carefully edited news presentations, the human face of war is rarely seen. The Fourth Word 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.



Directed by the award winning New York based Big Noise Films, with Tony Award winner Suheir Hammad and singer Michael Franti from Spearhead, it is a radical story of hope and human connection in the face of a war that shatters and divides.

Gus Berger
- e-mail: gus@dochouse.org
- Homepage: http://dochouse.org

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And it's in London

15.06.2004 13:14

...in case you're reading this on the UK wire. :)

David


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