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Film Descriptions:

2001 --- 2002 --- 2003 --- 2004 --- 2007

Film Descriptions for
Visualized 2001

A Rabbit Dancing
1999-83min
Co-Creative alternative culture in an American eco-village. (USA-Alan Scheib & Philip Craft)

A Woman is a Charming Thing
2001-1min

Activist Media Project
2001-30min
Several short pieces from this Boulder group, mostly local coverage.

Adventures of A.D.D. Girl
2001-4min
Using live action, paint on film, pixelation and hand processing, this film is a cheeky and triumphant exploration of different-mindedness. (Canada-Lauren Mainland, Terra Poirier)

Against the Grain
1998-13min
Biotechnology and the wrath of Monsanto are the subject of this comprehensive documentary. (USA-Britt Bailey)

Anarchy in LA
2000-8min
What is anarchism? (USA-Jino Choi)

Assimamorphosis
1999-3min
An exploration in the juxtaposition of man's natural self and the rigid standards imposed by modern media society as presented in the form of a mythological creature versus a faceless corporate identity. (Canada-Eli Brennan, Alani Klein, Marlon Hickey, Alix Hick)

Boom! The Sound of Eviction
2001-95min
Explores the effects of the recent dot-com boom and bust on community displacement and gentrification, particularly in San Francisco's largely Latino Mission District

Contestational Robotics
2000-5min
Documentary on political-robotic inventions. (USA-Institute for Applied Autonomy)

Criminalizing Dissent
2001-7min
Discusses the lack of diversity in the anti-globalization movement. (USA-Indymedia Center NYC)

Crowd Bites Wolf
2001-30min
A comical story tying in fiction and non-fiction regarding the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank protests in Prague, Czech Republic, September 2000 (UK GuerrillaVision)

Culture jammers
1min
Various commericals critizing corporate advertising. (Canada-Adbusters)

Dam Nation
2001-21min
In the oldest city in West Africa- Djenne, Mali, a community fights a dam project that would wipe out their city, and their existence. Sponsored by FreeSpeech TV.

Dirt
1998-52min
A season in the life of NY community gardens and their eclectic people. (USA - David Evans)

Dolls and Dust
1998-60min
Presents analyses and testimonies of women worker and activists in Sri Lanka, Thailand, and South Korea on the impact of industrial restructuring, globalization and "male-development" on their lives, communities and the environment. Sponsored by Free Speech TV. (Hong Kong-Wayang)

Drums of October
2001-22min
Columbus Day Protests, October 2000, Denver (USA - Lori Wender)

Free Ride
1998-35min
Anarchists hop trains from struggle to struggle. (USA-Kinofist Imageworks)

Genetic Escapes
2001-5min
Genetically engineered foods are permeating unsolicited into our grocery stores. Scientists are experimenting with all sorts of trans-species organisms. What happens when they escape and cross-pollinate with natural species? (Canada-Amanda Cantelon, Sherine Stangroom, Dean Crouse)

Going to the Fence
2001-25min
A story of why the wall was built around the Summit of the Americas in Quebec and why it was so important to tear it down. (USA-Lisa Mastramico and Joe Rigney)

Green Animation
3min
Environmental bird/tree action!

Greetings from Missile Street
2000-41min
Summer 2000, five members of the radical group, Voices in the Wildnerness, spent several months living in Basra, Iraq, on Missile Street, which the U.S. bombed in 1999. (USA-Tom Jackson, Voices in the Wilderness)

Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
2001-60min
Specializing in the hidden history prior to the Persian Gulf War/Massacre, the role of the U.S. in Iraq and the Middle East is fully explored. (USA-Gerard Ungerman)

Hope for the Hopeless
2001-18min
WARNING! This video is graphic and may be disturbing. An undercover investigation three activists conducted at a Maryland factory egg farm. Made public in June 2001, the story was covered by The Washington Post, USA Today, ABC, CBS, FOX, AP, UPI, and smaller media outlets. (USA-Compassion Over Killing)

Images of a Dictatorship
2000-60min
Chronicling General Augusto Pinochet's reign of terror in Chile. The imagery speaks for itself, as the film presents a scathing tableau of military rule. (Canada-Multimedia Group of Canada)

Is this what Democracy Looks Like?
2001-5min
(USA-Dan Griffin)

Las Hermanas en la Lucha
1999-7min
A look at indigenous women struggling in Chiapas and in Colorado. (USA-Kerry Appel)

Lez-be-eet
2001-2min
A self-portrait on coming out. (Ms. Moustache, Tamar Eylon)

Power from the People
2002-30min
About the fight to distribute homemade renewable energy over the grid. From an Iowa farmer to a California sola guerrilla, these people have the power to share, if only their utilities would let them.

The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
2001-168min
Shot over a six year period, revisiting the Gulf War through a lens, it focuses on the war"s reverberations in America. This film seeks to resurrect the memory of a time that was too quickly filed away but whose tragic consequences continue to be felt, most profoundly among twenty-two million people of Iraq. (USA-John Gianvito)

Massacre at Acteal
1998-16min
Pohlo, Chiapas, Mexico and what happened at this site, in December 1998. (USA-Kerry Appel)

Mickey Mouse Monopoly
2001-52min
Critically looks at the world Walt Disney films create in terms of the stories told about race, gender and class-about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. (USA-Media Education Foundation)

Moneybelt
2001-8min
Experimental travelogue of New York City (USA-Carolina Pfister)

New World Border
2001-32min
WARNING! THIS VIDEO SHOWS THE DEATH OF A PERSON Documenting the rise of human rights abuses along the US-Mexico border. (USA-Peek Media)

Nobody Rides for Free
2000-17min
A surrealistic look and the first in a trilogy based on the prophecy of Chilam Balam, about the reincarnation of Jesus Christ as the Muskogee. (USA-Mayaglyph Films)

One Brick
2001-4min
Using 2D and 3D computer animation, claymation, stopmotion and more. (Canada-Daren Sasges, Allison McColl, Mia Wood, Angus McTavish, Tyler Hagen, Robyn Winsor)

Paint it Black: Anarchism, Race, and the Mainstream Media
2001-50min
Looks into the mainstream media's portrayal of anarchists and anarchism, and what it means for a revolutionary movement that is not fundamentally concerned with black liberation movements to represent itself through the color black in a country where racial stratification and injustice continues to be one of the most pervasive forms of social oppression. (USA-Jessica Lawless)

Peace in Vieques
2000-9min
Looks into the situation of this small island off the cost of Puerto Rico between the US Navy and locals. (USA-Elizabeth Press and Jason Steven Murphy)

Pies the Limit
1999-28min
A chronicle of the global pastry uprising of the Biotic Baking Brigade. (USA-Whispered Media)

Plan Columbia-We say No!
2001-19min
A look into Plan Columbia, a US sponsored plan to stop the "drug war" and what it really is. (USA-People"s Video Network)

The Power of Coal
2001-7min
Highlights several key U.S. policy bungles in regards to global climate change. (USA-John Schmit)

Quiet Riot
2001-5min
Quiet Riot in Denver, need we say more? (USA-Bob Choflet)

Red Cloud Thunder
2000-30min
Forest defense in the Northwest. (USA-Priya Reddy, Warcry Independent Cinema)

Reclaim the Streets
2001-5min
Action footage of an anti-inauguration Bush rally in San Francisco. (USA-Jino Choi)

Sin Agua, no Hay Vida (Without Water, There is no Life)
2000-50min
Environmental justice documentary about the struggles of San Luis Colorado. The watershed is being damaged by industrial logging on the Taylor Ranch, located on the mountain track above San Luis, in what amounts to one of the largest timber sales in the United States. (USA-Wet Mountain Productions)

Skin on the Drum
2000-48min
A critical look at the 1999 WTO focusing on what is at stake, media framing, and the protestors themselves. (USA-Denver 5 Productions)

Storm on the Mountain
2001-74min
A look at the Zapatista's historical march in January 2000, from Chiapas, Mexico to Mexico City. (USA-Big Noise Productions)

The Strenth of the Indigenous People of Mut Vitz (Svokolik Vatz'l Viniketik Sventa Mut Vitz)
2000-27min
A look at the lives and work of the organic coffee producers of the Mut Vitz Cooperative in the Highlands of Chiapas. Creative and Fun! La Lucha Sigue!

Suits and Savages
2000-38min
Commissioned by the government funded Economic and Social Research council, Suits and Savages take the journey form an adivasi (tribal) village in South India to the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC. (UK-Conscious Cinema)

Surveillance Camera Players
1998-01 15min
A group turns the cameras around for their own thespian inclinations. (USA)

Thirteen
2001-13min
An artistic look into the treatment of juveniles as adults in the criminal justice system focusing on the Nathan Brazill case.(USA-Richard Burroughs)

Timber Gap
2000-18min
A community struggling to save the last of Mendocino's coastal redwood forest. A new company has moved in, financed by The Gap clothing store owners, the Fisher family; who are not only exploiting sweatshop workers, but now the redwoods. (USA-Headwaters Action Video Collective (HAVC)

Together We can Defeat Capitalism
2000-10min
A comedy of guerrilla actions which highlight the shortcomings of the capitalist system. (USA-Revolutionary Bat Government in Exile and sponsored by Citybank)

Visitors
2001-4min
Symbolic tales of Europeans coming to America. (Canada-Barry D. Johnson)

Voices of Dissent
2001-50min
An Activist Media Project Boulder film looking at globalization.

War & Peace
2001-15min
An artistic look into war and peace in Denver. (USA-Chris Baron and Jason DiSalbo)

WATCH!
2001-60min
An inspiring documentary about the 1999 coalition formed between a timber town and environmentalists to fight the second largest timber company in the world. (USA-Briana Waters)

We aren't Blocking Traffic, We ARE Traffic!
1999-52min
Critical Mass, a group that started up in San Francisco, after bikers were being killed on a regular basis by cars and trolleys, show that the streets aren't only for cars. (USA)

Why Are You Afraid of Our Voices?
2001-5min
Dancing, music, protesting, and more dancing. (Canada-Lyndsay Moffatt)

Women Organize!
2000-32min
Portrays women organizers across the U.S. who are involved in the global struggles for racial, social, and economic justice. There are five women organizers of various backgrounds, peek at the campaigns they wage, and watch as they begin to pick up the tools to document their own transformative work.(USA-Women Make Movies)

Year in the Streets
2001-85min
A new generation of activists rises to expose the atrocities of neo-liberal economic globalization and to confront the violence of the capitalist police state. A street-level view of the clashes between activists who recognize the need for urgent radical change and a state apparatus engaged in the widespread repression of free speech and assembly. (USA-Cascadia Media Collective)

You'd better Watch out-Santacon
1997-39min
Santarchy erupts when naughty Cacophonists converge for the 1996 Portland Santacon and confuse the cops with their noel mayhem. (USA)

Previously Screened
Film Series

Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone
1995-52min 

Los Trabajadores/The Workers
2001-48min
Through the stories of two men, Ramon and Juan, and through the controversy surrounding the relocation of a day labor site from downtown to a residential neighborhood, Los Trabajadores/The Workers examines the misperceptions and contradictions inherent in America's paradoxical history of both dependence on and abuse of immigrant labor.

RAWA (Revolutionary Afghanistan Women's Association)
2001-22min
Scared Sacred

Voice of the Voiceless
2001-49min
Director Tania Cuevas-Martinez explores the imprisonment of activist Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Not Going There, Don't Belong Here
2002-25min
Boulder Filmmaker Helga Tawil-Documentary about Palesintinian refugees in Southern Lebanon.