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Spooky, Spooky... welcome to the state of surveillance....

rampART | 01.06.2006 13:21 | Culture | Free Spaces | London

The the weekly FREE COMMUNITY CINEMA is dead, long LIVE the CINEMA at the rampART!!!

After a periode of LOW numbers of attendees, the organiser of the FCC resigned.

Now, with the fresh ambitions of a new crew, the FCC arises like a PHOENIX out of the ashes.

Starting tonight with:
With Coppolas "Conversation", "Little Terrorist" and "Spookspeak".

rampART, 15, Rampart Street, off commercial Road, E1 2LA.
Free admission. Popcorn and Refreshments available.

Main film: "THE CONVERSATION"
The Conversation is a 1974 mystery and thriller directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Robert Duvall (uncredited), Teri Garr, Cindy Williams, and Harrison Ford.Harry Caul (Hackman), a paranoid surveillance expert running his own company. Caul is obsessed with his own privacy; his apartment is almost bare behind its triple-locked door, he uses payphones to make calls and claims to have no home telephone, and his office is enclosed in wire mesh in a corner of a much larger warehouse. Caul is utterly professional at work but he finds personal contact difficult. He is exquisitely uncomfortable in closely-packed crowds and withdrawn and taciturn in more inimate situations; he is also reticent and secretive with work colleagues. He is nondescript in appearance, except for his habit of wearing a translucent plastic raincoat virtually everywhere he goes (even when it is not raining). Despite his insistence that his professional code means that he is not responsible for worrying about the actual content of the conversations he records or the use to which his surveillance activities are put by his clients, he is in fact wracked by guilt over a past wiretap job that left three people dead; his sense of guilt is sharpened by his devout Catholicism.
Though the script was written in the mid-1960s, the film was released shortly after the Watergate scandal broke, and deals with contemporary issues of personal responsibility and the encroachment of technology on privacy.

Short film programme: "LITTLE TERRORIST" (UK 2004) by Ashvin Kumer. Alipur Films.
Jamal, a 10-year-old Pakistani Muslim, mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan and finds an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola's village searching for the so-called terrorist who crossed over. Bhola's neice, Rani, insists they can't let a Muslim into their Hindu home. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the consequences of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice against Muslims, Jamal's only hope is the humanity shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries a long time ago.
Beautiful and heart warming tale of a young boy's mistaken identity whilst trying to get his cricket ball from the wrong side of the fence on the border between India and Pakistan.
subtitled in English
Winner of the the Grand Price at the Teheran International Film Fest. Oscar nomination.

And "SPOOKSPEAK", a short film about keywords which may trigger NSA surveillance of communications (USA 2006)
San Francisco International Film Festival

Come tonight at 8pm sharp to support your FREE COMMUNITY CINEMA at the rampART.
15, Rampart Street, off commercial Road, E1 2LA.

Closest public services: Whitechapel and Aldgate East tube, Shadwell DLR. Busses: 15, 115, 100, 25, 106, 205, 253, 254.

Free admission. Popcorn and Refreshments available.

rampART
- e-mail: rampart@mutualaid.org
- Homepage: http://www.rampart.co.nr

Comments

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Rampartistas,

01.06.2006 14:31

Rampartistas! You should no better than this...the pic is way too big! Resize yer flyers n pics for the newswire, it's imposs to view this one.

IMCista


too big for you?

01.06.2006 15:20

oooh, you will be laughing. i changed it an hour ago and uploaded a smaller one, but it takes its time...

but it's a nice poster tough.

cheers and see you tonight!?

rampartista
mail e-mail: rampart@mutualaid.org
- Homepage: http://www.rampart.co.nr


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