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MONDAY AUGUST 28 An email from Marni Cordell (Spinach7 Magazine) which leads to us hosting this very special screening: "An american filmmaker, david martinez, is going to be in town on 28 and 29 august with his doco '500 Miles To Babylon' (more info below). I've seen it and it's really interesting - it basically charts iraqi attitudes to the american occupation from invasion until just after those western (so-called) contractors were burnt and hung from a bridge in fallujah. it shows how the insurgency really only began after the US retaliated by bombing the shit out of fallujah, and gives a real from-the-ground perspective that i haven't seen anywhere else - mostly because most journos don't venture out of the green zone because it's too dangerous." 500
Miles to Babylon is a one-hour documentary film about Iraq
under U.S. occupation. Narrated by the filmmaker, using footage shot
in Iraq during 2003-4, the film addresses the current war not simply
as a conflict over petroleum profits or a scheme to fill a company's
coffers, but as part of a larger American imperial project. Through
impromptu interviews, glimpses of daily life, still photographs, and
footage of car-bombs, demonstrations, night-time graffiti artists, and
the celebrations following Saddam's capture, 500 Miles To Babylon reveals
the situation in contemporary Iraq through a cinema verite lens. More
than a simple anti-war movie, 500 Miles… follows a journal-esque
"narrative of disintegration", showing the initial excitement
of some sectors of the Iraqi population after the U.S. military toppled
Saddam Hussein, their hope eroding as they watched their country sink
into chaos and violence in the months that followed. The film ends with
the April 2004 assault on Fallujah, when all of Iraq was rising against
the Americans, and includes rare footage from inside besieged Fallujah,
where the filmmaker went with a group of journalists and aid workers
to deliver medical supplies and move wounded civilians to Baghdad. About the filmmaker: David Martinez is a journalist and filmmaker originally from Texas. He has worked as a video correspondent in Aceh, Indonesia as well as in Iraq where he worked with Prothap Chatterjee (www.corpwatch.org) covering the U.S. occupation in 2003-4. Most recently he produced one segment of a film about music in Sumatra, Sumatran Folk Cinema, for the Sublime Frequencies label (www.sublimefrequencies). Mr. Martinez currently makes his home in San Francisco. http://www.graffitifilms.com/bio.htm _________________________________ |
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SATURDAY AUGUST 19 ---about the screening--- Jo Law and Redmond Bridgeman have worked for more than 15 years making, producing, and teaching film and video culture in Perth. They occupy a unique position in Australian film culture, embracing both ends of the technological spectrum: from "camera-less" films scratched and sticky-taped together on 16mm, through super 8 home movies, to micro-mini digital MPEGs designed for delivery to your PDA. Jo and Redmond will be joining us on Saturday night to run the projectors, introduce the films, and answer all your questions! ---a bit about PRIMARY SOURCES: The Teaching and Learning Cinema--- The Teaching and Learning Cinema (TLC) is an initiative of Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein. It's an evolution of SMIC (Sydney Moving Image Coalition). Upping the ante in the culture of participation, the TLC focuses on showing moving-image works in an informal, discursive atmosphere. 8PM,
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FRIDAY AUGUST 4 This Friday August 4th, SYDNEY is proud to be playing host to the debut Sydney screening of: IRON COVE MAN - 'Romance Waters Series' - an inspired new film by Matthew Tumbers. Also screening on the night will be some of Matthew's earlier works including: Shoeboarding Sequences Footy Food The Vulture El Horridor 6 Degrees Of Seperation
Please join us for this exciting and all-too-rare showcase of Matthew's work at 8pm sharp on Friday night Entry $8 Also available on the night will be limited edition 'Romance Waters Series' posters designed by Hana Shimada, and proudly printed on the Big Fag Press.
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FRIDAY JULY 28 Infotainment! Amsterdam <--> Yogja <--> Sydney. Kernow Craig and Ms.Amity Ville present an evening of stories and slides about their recent international sojourns. Kernow has been in Amsterdam since 2003, living in squats and doing graphic design with Green Pepper Magazine, and DIY printing collective kNUST. Amity spent 2005 studying in Indonesia. After the recent earthquake, she helped organise the wildly successful 'Rock against Rubble' fundraising party at Lanfranchi's. She has just returned from a short trip to Yogyakarta to deliver the proceeds to the Taring Padi collective whose building was destroyed. Kernow and Amity will be accompanied by Sydney's famous Krazy Kool drinks (indo style), Indonesian Dangdut music, and really strange Dutch music. So please Join us this Friday evening at 8pm, at SYDNEY, 302 Cleveland Street, Surry Hills.
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THURSDAY JUNE 22 Look out! The GRAND OPENING of JIMMY SING'S IMPORTS! This
THURSDAY JUNE 22 get down to 302 CLEVELAND ST. SURRY
HILLS. After
enough trading by appointment only, Jimmy Sing is launching ~
JAMAICAN REGGAE & DANCEHALL Come
and check out the selection this THURSDAY or in the new weekly WEDNESDAYS:
6-9pm >> More info www.jimmysings.biz >>
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FRIDAY MARCH 31 Small Sydney sez "MASSIVE PROPS to Mickie Quick". Join us to say it LOUD and say it BIG, this Friday March 31st (his birthday) from 8 til the wee hours of April's Fools. Don't forget to bring your massive prop!
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MONDAY MARCH 20 Sydney Moving Image Collective presents: READING ALOUD a vigil to mark the 3rd anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq & the 3rd anniversary of SMIC 7pm, Mon March 20 2006 On
March 20, a world wide reading of American writer Eliot Weinberger’s
text What I Heard About Iraq will take place under the auspices
of the Berlin International Literature Festival. SMIC is hosting a reading in Sydney. The evening will consist of a reading aloud of the Weinberger text on the war. Copies of the text will be on the walls around the room and on tables. The reading aloud is a vigil – it does not dominate the room, it just takes place. It will take about 90 minutes to complete the reading. more info here _________________________________ |
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THURSDAY MARCH 16 Coming
right atcha from inna SYDNEY...
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 1 Jill Rock is in town! Jill is a London based artist and curator involved with the renegade London Biennale. Lucas Ihlein, fresh from the success of the "our trip to the ice hotel" info-tainment night here at SYDNEY, met up with Jill and together they are going to present a similarly styled event. Jill will showcase 'The Cosmic Wrestling Match', the London Biennale event orchestrated by David Medalla and Adam Nankervis that created marvellous mayhem in London's ICA. Jill will also showcase the London Biennale and tell tales of how it became almost the only DIY-arts biennale in the world. "We have no bureau and therefore no bureaucrat", is one of their sayings. So please join us this Wednesday March 1st at 7pm for an evening of info-tainment by Jill Rock. A 2006 London Biennale Pollination
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 In the throes of multiple releases, barn cleansing and impending international tours, System Corrupt's TOECUTTER is going to be launching his new CD with us next Saturday February 25. SYDNEY will be the meeting point for an intimate multi-venued journey hosted by the man himself. Be here 8pm. Free, with CDs for sale. If you're not familiar...check Toecutter HQ. And some of his family.
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 On Thursday at 6:30pm at SYDNEY, my architect friend stuart harrison (visiting from melbourne) and i are giving a slideshow (actually powerpoint) talk about our experience at the icehotel (sweden) last december, where we made some ice architecture and got to use chainsaws and stuff! "our trip to the ice hotel" (an
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DECEMBER 24, 2005 XMAS is official: For now we turn to some fun times. Tomorrow, Wednesday, JIMMY SING'S IMPORTS is open from six. If you've worked out your top five tunes of the year, bring them down to host. Plenty of $7 7"s for prezzies and even more coming in a shipment arriving Friday. Drop by and be in contact. But! Wait on. Beyond kris kringle there is Xmas Eve!! The time that our patron St. G. Bibby blessed us with talcum powder to dust on the vinyl flooring and dance through Santa's glory. Please come to our first inaugural HILLS DANCE! All are invited. From 4pm. The dancing, beginning at first dark, will be necessary and most certainly infectious.
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14 SYDNEY city has been most ugly this week. Shame our name. Sadly our joyous kangaroo signature mark has become loaded with bad affiliations. For the time being, we have covered him in paper. But our xmas lights are up: the only way suited. Love and respect to all the good people in Sydney and beyond. And most importantly, we will all see you at the ANTI-RACIST RALLY this Sunday December 18: Town Hall, CBD. 1 PM.
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| SUNDAY DECEMBER 11 Jimmy Sing's is open for Wednesday night trade. 6pm-9pm. All welcome. Beers are ahoy. (by donation). Until xmas, check on 7"s for $7. Please look to jimmysings.biz for more. _________________________________ |
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SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 12 JIMMY
SING'S IMPORTS will have dancehall, reggaeton and baile funk
vinyl/Cds to check out. Pick of the week, goes to the huuge promo 12"
from UK's refix masters, Tigerstyle,
with their bhangra licking of new dancehall and reggaeton. Panjabis
lean back! More info is to be updated at Jimmy
Sing's. This tape travels the distance: you got Lady Saw to Galurrwuy Yunupingu, baile funk to Robin Fox, DJ Assault to Venetian Snares. Plus an exclusive first-time track from Sven called Your Fantasy. Wooh. Sven will be launching his mixtape from 4pm with a live selection. Mixtapes 7 bucks, Mixcds 5 bucks. Check Sven's blog and other projects. _________________________________ |
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Thankyou to all the dear peoples that joined us for our launch last week and helped us build this place. Melbourne's TWO FACE, Lucreccia Quintanilla and Jason Heller, brought the good time music and are now sadly missed. That is, they've gone back to Melbourne.
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SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 4, 2005 PLUS!
We are proud to announce the first release in the official JIMMY SING's
MIXTAPE series is by none other than those double-crossing El Salvadorean
Skippy producing Melbournites, The
duo are coming to SYDNEY exclusively to deliver their casssettes and
run a live set for us from 4pm. Don't miss. Check out www.jimmysings.biz
for more info. _________________________________ |
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