INJUSTICE

News from the makers of 'Injustice' - the radical feature length documentary film about the struggles for justice by the families of people that have been killed by the police in the UK.

1. Free 'master'class by 'INJUSTICE' film makers- London:
We have been asked to run a 'master'class in radical documentary film making as part of the Wood Green Film Festival. It takes place on sunday 26th march between 12.30 and 2.00 at the Wood Green Library, High Road, N22. Nearest tube wood green. Rather than pontificating this will be an opportunity to discuss issues of imagination and intervention with the new film - Licence To Kill
The event is free and open to all with an interest in the subject. To secure a place email
martin.charter@haringey.gov.uk

2. 'INJUSTICE' - CD & Dead Prez:
We have been producing a music CD which will be out soon. It will feature artists who have been long term supporters like shortMAN , Princess Emanuelle, The Tribunes, Jimmy Chiozo and Hillz Yungstaz and much more talent. The CD will help raise the profile of the family campaigns for justice, after its launch there will be a touring 'Injustice Roadshow' with the Injustice film, family campaign speakers and live performances from the artists. The aim of the tour is to organise, raise awareness and raise funds to support the different family campaigns. The CD includes some radical rap, hip-hop, roots, spoken word, r&b and much more! If you can help with distribution of the CD or want to host the road show then contact: info@injusticefilm.co.uk

Breaking news: We are now involved in the forthcoming Dead Prez Tour for further details go to:
www.biggerthanhiphoptour.com

To read about other Migrant Media productions log onto http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk

JOB add - please tell all and sundry

26 April - Kim Cascone

Fri 17 March - Roshini Kempadoo

Roshini Kempadoo will give a talk and presentation of her Photography work in the Representation class at Goldsmiths at 11am-1pm - in room 137a. All welcome.

Some info on Roshini below...
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[Please also note that we have the "SHOW" of films and photography made in this year's 'Representation' class on the day after - ie saturday 18th March (in the Cinema, + 142 and 143 Goldsmiths Main Building) from 11am till 5pm or 6.]
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Roshini Kempadoo:
Portfolio websites:
Autograph abp website
http://www.autograph-abp.co.uk
(see under artists)
Open Frequency - Axis curated programme
http://www.axisartists.org.uk/ofSELC.aspx
University of East London
http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/staff/roshini_kempadoo/index.htm

2006
Solo work:
Virtual Exiles - on-line artwork
http://www.mediascot.org/host/art/exiles/ve/index.html

Group show:
Culture Bound - East Wing Collection vii
Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House, Strand, London
21st January - July 2006
www.eastwingcollection.org.uk


Talks/Presentations:
Monday 27th February 2006
New York University invited guest speaker
New York

20th -23rd July 2006
2006 Association for Cultural Studies
Panel: Beyond the Other? Interrogating postcolonial theory and practice
Crossroads Conference at İstanbul Bilgi University
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Bettina Papenburg Weds 15 march 6pm

SEPRO presents:
Mechanical metaphors: transfigurations of technology in Cronenberg’s film VIDEODROME

by Bettina Papenburg

Wends 15th of March 6PM MB 137

The talk shall focus on an analysis of the filmic strategies thatCronenberg deploys for establishing a metaphoric relation between man andmachine. Therefore the examination shall address visual icons and theirinterconnections as materialized fictions that show how both technologyand the human body are transformed and reshaped in the process of theircoupling. Particular attention will be given to the different effects thatthis intimate relationship with technology exerts on the female and on themale body respectively. The ambivalences and ambiguities that are at theheart of these new, technologically informed bodies might point to thenecessity to rework conventional binary frames. Drawing on methods fromstructural myth analysis some selected sequences of the film shall be readclosely in respect of the question, how the various sensual channels playtogether and resonate in the process by which novel meaning is created andcommunicated.

BETTINA PAPENBURG is currently completing her PhD with Peter Köpping atthe Institute of Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Herinterests revolve around ideas of the monstrous, the grotesque and theludic and their representation in contemporary film. For her thesis shefocuses on the subversive potentials of the grotesque body as it isimagined in the idea of the coupling of man and machine in the films ofthe Canadian director David Cronenberg. Bettina has worked as a filmeditor on productions in Berlin and Rome and has directed a documentary onrituals in Japan. She has taught courses on mythology and film at theUniversity of Heidelberg and has written several articles on theaesthetics of deformation, mechanical desire, monstrosity and technology,and the reconfiguration of the gendered body in film.
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ZELIMIR ZILNIK 23rd March 2006, 5 – 7 pm

Forthcoming event:

Screen School and the Transnational Research Unit of the Department of Media and Communications present:

DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING – RAW REFLECTIONS OF TIME

ZELIMIR ZILNIK

Ian Gulland Cinema, Goldsmiths College

23^rd March 2006, 5 – 7 pm

Zelimir Zilnik reflects back on forty years of making documentary films that capture social and political crises across different decades. Using examples of his work (June Turmoil; Old Timer; Tito for the Second Time Amongst the Serbs), but also the work by Janko Baljak (Anatomy of Pain; Crime that Changed Serbia), Zilnik is interested in documentaries as raw documents of time, juxtaposing them to the dominant representations of recent Serbian, Yugoslav and Balkan history.

Biography:

Zelimir Zilnik (born 1942, based in Novi Sad, Serbia) is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Balkans today. From the late 60s, his socially engaged films and documentaries in former Yugoslavia and his unique visual style earned him critical accolade (The Unemployed, 1968, Best Documentary at the Oberhausen festival, 1968; Early Works,1969, Best Film at Berlin Film Festival), but also censorship in the 70s for his unflinching criticism of the government apparatus. Low budget filmmaking and challenging political themes mark Zilnik’s prolific career, which includes over 40 feature and documentary films. Since the 1980s, he has been developing his unique docu-drama language, which he used throughout 1990s to reflect on political tensions, including EU sanctions, the NATO bombings, and Milosevic’s regime. His power to observe and to unleash compelling narratives out of the lives of ordinary people is the common thread throughout his documentary and docu-drama work, including the 1994 film Tito's Second Time Amongst the Serbs. More recently, his focus has shifted beyond the divided Balkans to question their relationship with the tightening controls of European borders, delving into the heart of issues concerning refugees and migrants, in Fortress Europe (2000), Kenedi Goes Back Home (2003) and Kenedi: Lost and Found (2005).

For more information, visit www.zelimirzilnik.com
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Monday 13 march - Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Events @ Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College

Rafael Lozano Hemmer
Antimonuments and Subsculptures

13th of March@6pm, room 137a MB, Goldsmiths College

The Centre for Cultural Studies is pleased to announce the talk from
internationally acclaimed electronic artist Rafael Lazano Hemmer who
develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually
deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using
robotics, projections, sound, Internet and cell-phone links, sensors and
other devices, his installations aim to provide "temporary antimonuments
for alien agency". His work has been commissioned for events such as the
Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of
Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the United Nations' World Summit of Cities in
Lyon (2003), the opening of the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and Media in
Japan (2003) and the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004).
For further information please visit: www.lozano-hemmer.com
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11am fri 10 March 06 - Richard Rudy

Richard Rudy, co-director of "Rage against the machine" (2004) - a doco film about music creativity during the Bosnian war - will talk about his documentary, and the making of a feature film on the topic, at Goldsmiths on 10 March in room 137a at 11am. We will show the documentary too.

The pic is of Richard - on the right - and co-director James Harvey.
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Friday 3 March - Aki Nawaz

Aki Nawaz will present several promos by the group Fun^da^mental and discuss the making of agit-propa-gandhi style video from over ten years of Nation Records uncompromising action.

Room 137a Main Building, Goldsmiths College 11am - 12.30 Firday 3 march 2006.
All welcome.
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