MondaysApril 10, 2006Monday Night – 04.10.06 –Martin Lucas-EVC-Gulf Crisis TV Project--All That I can BeMonday Night – 04.10.06 –Martin Lucas-EVC-Gulf Crisis TV Project--All That I can Be Contents: 1. About Monday Night
What: Screening /Discussion with Martin Lucas We will have a screening of the Gulf Crisis TV Project, a collaborative video produced by Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV during the first Gulf War, as well as ‘All That I Can Be’, a video about military recruiting in high schools—made by high school students. Martin Lucas will be present for a discussion following the screenings, as well as one of the filmmaking team from the Educational Video Center. Hope you can make it.
Martin Lucas is an actively engaged artist with a critical perspective and a documentary bent who works in an art world context as well as in alternative and broadcast media. Projects include Subway Outside, an free-ranging look at how New Yorkers find culture made in collaboration with Dutch conceptual artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and involving installation, broadcast, periodical publications and a series of discussions around art and public culture. Martin has taught film and video production as well as new media at Fordham University, Brooklyn College, CUNY and The Educational Video Center. He currently teaches in the Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter College, City University of New York, courses include collective documentary production and electronic news gathering. (from http://distributedcreativity.typepad.com/educonversations/2005/05/martin_lucas.html) _______________________________________ The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated _______________________________________ We will be showing a one-hour selection' from the first four shows of the GCTVP,
War, Oil and Power: Martin Lucas Operation Dissidence: Chris Hoover and Simine Farkhondeh Out of the Sand Trap: DeeDee Halleck and Ilona Merber Bring the Troops Home!: Cathy Scott and Jen Lion
As the US geared up for war in the Fall of 1990, a group of Paper Tigers organized the Gulf Crisis TV Project, a TV teach-in focusing on peaceful alternatives to the military agenda of war in the Persian Gulf. Working with Deep Dish TV and its nationwide network of public access stations and producers, GCTV brought the alternative media movement together with anti-war activists to provide a response to the massive media management accompanying America's military build-up in the Gulf. In four half-hour programs, images of demonstrations around the country were combined with analyses of issues, including energy and foreign policy in "War, Oil & Power," and a look at how the war was being sold in the US media in "Operation Dissidence." Aggressive outreach and networking with peace groups led hundreds of access stations and dozens of PBS channels to show the series on a repeated basis in the days immediately before the war. Tapes were also shown in Australia, Britain, Canada, and Japan. The initial success of the series prompted six more shows by GCTV, including "Manufacturing the Enemy," which explored the tide of anti-Arab racism raised by the Gulf conflict, and "The War at Home," which looked at the impact of the war on black, hispanic and other communities in the US. __________________________________________________ 22 minutes, Youth Organizers Television (NYC high school students; produced at the Educational Video Center) Description of ‘All That I Can Be’ on the Media Matters Film Festival website All That I Can Be was produced and edited at the Educational Video Center (EVC) in midtown Manhattan over the course of the 2004-2005 school year. Students met four days a week for four hours a day, sometimes staying late and coming in on the weekends during their most intense stages of production. The crew consisted of six students (all in high school with the exception of Krista who was attending her first semester at Queensborough Community College) and their instructor, Rodney Mitchell. All the interviews in All That I Can Be were shot in New York City with the exception of a shoot in Pennsylvania and one at Fort Dix in New Jersey where Youth Organizers Television (YO-TV) students were granted the rare opportunity to bring cameras inside the base.
6. Links Gulf Crisis TV Project: History of the Gulf Crisis TV Project (on Paper Tiger Television’s website): Interview with Simone Farkhondeh by Isabelle Graw: ”Operation Camcorder Storm” by Ellen Spiro in Felix:
Educational Video Center: Youth Organizers TV: Media Matters Film Festival |
