The videos listed on this page represent the works of many activist videographers. You can order the videos and learn more about those who created them by contacting the producers themselves (links and contact information accompany each description.) More on-line sources of videos are listed below.
We Interrupt This Empire ...
The San Francisco Video Activist Network presents the story you won't see on Fox News: an unflinching look at the Bay Area's radical resistance to an illegal and horrific war. "We Interrupt This Empire..." is a collaborative work by many of the Bay Area's independent video activists which documents the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United States' invasion of Iraq. With the audio backdrop including the live broadcasts of SF Indymedia's Enemy Combatant Radio and the SFPD's tactical communications that were picked up by police scanners, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the coporate media coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attacks on civil liberties, and the United States' current imperialist drive. |
"This a a clear picture of what's left of an American conscience in the
midst of this national horror-show--this is the best damn doc I've seen
on
the local face of what might have been the largest anti-war movement in
world history."
"Covers a huge amount of ground, from corporate war profiteering to post-9/11 ethnic profiling... "
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 "Tear Gas Holiday is a powerful account of a transformative moment in
Canadian history, told through the tear gas filled eyes of those who were on
the front lines."
"A heart-felt, hand-held view from the streets. Prepare to be energized!" |
Tear Gas Holiday: Quèbec City Summit 2001Over two-years in the making, this fast-paced and visually striking documentary tells the inside story of the political activists who travelled to Quªbec City to protest at the Summit of the Americas. Appearances by prominent political activists include Jaggi Singh, Naomi Klein, Maude Barlow, Blanca Chancoso, Josª Bovª, Judy Rebick, R.H. Thompson, Art Manuel, Svend Robinson, Erin George, Denise Campbell, and many others. Tear Gas Holiday is a must see for anyone who cares about civil rights and democracy in the Americas. |
UPROOTED: Refugees of
the Global Economy
(National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights with Sasha Khokha,
Ulla Nilsen, Jon Fromer, and Francisco Herrera, 28 min, 2001)
A compelling documentary about how the global economy has forced people to leave their home countries. UPROOTED presents three stories of immigrants who left their homes in Bolivia, Haiti, and the Philippines after global economic powers devastated their countries, only to face new challenges in the United States. These powerful stories raise critical questions about U.S. immigration policy in an era when corporations cross borders at will. This documentary weaves together the stories of three immigrants into a compelling tale of how the global economy (including U.S. corporations and the International Monetary Fund) has forced immigrants to leave their home countries.
(74 min)
Drawing on the hard work of dozens of volunteer videographers, Breaking
the Bank is a fast-moving collaborative work that documents and explains
the April protests against the IMF and the World Bank. Unlike the corporate
media coverage of this historic event, this new video explores the issues
that drove the protests. Breaking the Bank draws connections between the
policies of these two little-known institutions and international militarism,
ecologically devestating development projects, genetic engineering, and
poverty within the "First World". Breaking the Bank features interviews
with luminaries such as Dr. Vandana Shiva, as well as figures such as Susan
Sarandon, Micheal Moore, and Zach De La Roche of Rage Against the Machine.
Scenes of confrontation and harassment by a brutal police force are intercut
with the passionate actions of thousands of protestors. Breaking the Bank
will serve as a testament to the creativity, and conviction of the growing
movement against corporate globalization. Produced April 2000
by Big Noise Films, Changing
America, Headwaters Action
Video Collective, JustAct, Paper
Tiger TV, Sleeping Giant Productions,
VideoActive, Whispered Media,
and Wholesome Goodness. In
conjunction with the Independent Media
Center.
Order from any of the Co-Producers
More on the IMF/WB and this video
Showdown in Seattle: Five
Days that shook the WTO produced December, 1999 by
Independent Media Center and Big Noise Films, Changing America,
Headwaters Action Video Collective, Paper Tiger TV, VideoActive and Whispered
Media, working with the footage of dozens of video activists from the
IMC. (150 min.) Showdown in Seattle features an on-the-ground, non-corporate
perspective and in-depth analysis you won't find anywhere else, in addition
to incredible footage of police repression and popular resistance. Each
half hour show is made up of segments shot and edited on location in downtown
Seattle by an unprecedented collaboration of video producers from around
the U.S. working under the umbrella of the Independant Media Center. The
programs in this series were produced daily on location in Seattle and
satellitecast across the U.S on each day of the WTO ministerial.
Pricing: Individuals - $50 donation + $3 shipping & handling=$53
Low-income/activist/students - $25 donation + $3 S&H = $28
Institutional Rate (universities, libraries, large corporations and non-profit
organizations) - $250 donation + $3 S&H = $253
Order from any of the Co-Producers
More
on Corporate Globalization and this video
Images from Showdown
in Seattle
Read a review of Showdown
in Seattle by Alternative Press Review
| Timber GAP A new video release from HAVC - in association with Earth Films and Tobermory Studios. Within this 18-minute video, several interrelated issues are connected. Starting out with a look at the unsustainable logging practices of the Mendocino Redwood Company, which is financed with profits from The GAP, it provides an overview of the ecological issues behind the environmental and community resistance. Judi Bari the late radical Earth First! organizer, explains how timberland can be converted once the forest has been logged; showing how vineyards and gentrification are moving north - "creeping up the pike" - into the redwood region.
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Colorful protests involving civil disobedience and direct action by a variety of activists bring home the point that all is not well in the great north woods.
The video then moves into the issue of sweatshop labor exploitation that has defined the profit margin for GAP Inc. An angry ex-sweatshop worker explains what conditions are like on the prison island of Saipan, a US colony that ignores US labor laws and imports young Asian girls as indentured workers. . .
From the producers of the award winning video, LUNA, The Stafford Giant Tree-Sit; Fire in the Eyes and co-producers of Showdown in Seattle 5 Days that Shook the WTO . . .
TIMBER GAP
please send donations to:
HAVC
P.O.BOX 2198
Redway CA 95560
suggested donation $20-$100
For larger quantities and broadcast information call :
(415) 820-1635
Email: info@havc.org
Headwaters Action Video Collective (HAVC)
Story of Margo
produced by Lina Hoshino of Kozaru Productions and Wendy Owen.
Deconstructing the cinematic language traditionally used to view women, Story of Margo documents one woman's experience as a sex worker. The voyeuristic and probing camera movement seeks to illustrate Margo's frank and articulate testimony while challenging the commodification of women's bodies in mainstream media. The piece was created as part of Hellavision, a television show created for and by youth. (7 minutes)
$10 donation + $3 postage and handling = $13
To order
this video, send a check or money order to:
Lina Hoshino
150 Albion St.
San Francisco, CA 94110. USA
Please contact Lina for more
information
Also, check out these websites by Lina Hoshino:
www.chillinwoman.com
www.globalarcade.org
www.whirledbank.org
CRITICAL RESISTANCE: To the Prison Industrial Complex. Two videos on one tape - produced by Sasha Magee, Carla Leshne and Videology.
USA, INCarcerated
is a fast-paced exploration of
the Prison Industrial Complex, who profits from it, what we are giving up for
it, and what we can do about it. It includes such luminaries as Angela Davis,
Geronjimo ji Jaga, Mike Davis, and Ramona Africa. It also includes music by
Spearhead, Ani DiFranco, John Trudell, and the Welfare Poets.USA, INCarcerated
Visions of Freedom
produced
by Neal and Luana of Videology (29 Minutes) with some footage provided
by VAN members.
This work features some of the same speakers and artists. It nicely weaves together music, poetry, and speakers at the Critical Resisance Conference. This work highlights the growing movement to end the lockdown.
Both on One Tape Individuals: $20 + $3 shipping
Institutions: $65 + $3 shipping
Prison Activist Organizations: $10 each for 5 or more copies (+ shipping),
for resale at $15-25.
To order this
video, send a check to: Please contact the producers below for more information or for public performance rights: Carla one of the producers of USA
INCarcerated
Public Media Network
PO Box 411271
San Francisco, CA 94141-1271
Videology producers of Visions of Freedom
Also check out the Prison Activist Resource Center
The Pie's the Limit
produced by Whispered Media(28 minutes)
A chronicle of the global pastry uprising of the Biotic Baking Brigade, starring San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and the CEOs of Chevron and Monsanto. This video features a cornucopia of political pie-throwings in San Francisco and beyond, including a brief history of consumable comedy and behind the scenes interviews with *real* underground pie tossers... Plus, corporate media analysis and in-your-face politics.
$15 donation + $3 postage and handling = $18
Institutional Rate (large universities, libraries, corporations and non-profit
organizations) - $125 donation + $3 S&H = $128
Images from The Pie's the Limit
More Videos from Whispered Media
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Death on a Friendly BorderSince the mid-1990s when the United States began militarizing its southern border, an average of one person a day has died crossing into the US. Death on a Friendly Border puts a human face on this international tragedy. We hear the story of one woman's journey from her impoverished village in Mexico into the US desert with her 18 month old baby. And we hear the stories of the migrants, the Border Patrol agents and the activists for whom the militarization of the border has become the governing reality of their lives.
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Concrete & SunshineFrom California dreamin' to California Lockdown ...
Concrete & sunshine looks at prison as a site within the landscape of California: the geographical landscape, the social landscape and the psychological landscape. Through conversations with prisoners and community members from both rural and urban areas, the documentary questions the function of prison and the impact it has on citizens across the state. Includes interviews with prisoners housed in solitary confinement in California1s 3super-max2 prison, Pelican Bay and a tour across the state with prison activist, Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Narrated by Dominique DiPrima.
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A 56 minute documentary about fat and fuel produced by: $30 for individuals, includes shipping |
FAT OF THE LANDOne long greasy skidmark across the asphalt of America! In the first kitchen-grease powered road movie five women tour America fueling up on the waste fat their fellow travelers have left behind. From New York to San Francisco, the women careen across the nation stopping at greasy spoons, asking for leftover frying oil to fuel their vehicle. Through interviews and chance encounters the video sardonically critiques the stranglehold petroleum has on our economy while investigating one fuel for the future-vegetable oil. Shot in an energetic style, consistent with the do-it-yourself impetus of the project, this documentary humorously engages ordinary people across the United States in a serious discussion about transportation fuel. |
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Pricing & Contact $15.00 for the two on one VHS tape For copies of the video or more information contact: |
Running Through Historya multi-media project that includes video, paintings and mixed media. It was catalyzed by the events of September 11th, 2001 in that I felt a strong desire to run through history - the historical events that have made a great impression on me, and examine them. Running Through History/Part One, initially deals with September 11th, and then moves into the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, from there it goes to a Western Ghost Town and outlaws of the West. Running Through History/Part Two, deals with civilization being destroyed by natural causes, i.e. the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii - in contrast to nature being destroyed by mankind as we use up the land and harm the natural balance of things. |
Online Video Catalogues and Distributors:
The Independent Media Center (IMC) Video Page
AK Press: "Browse Products" - Videos
Catalogo de producciones, Canal 6, Mexico
Cultureshop.org
i-Contact Video Network's distribution site for independent/radical/political
issue-based videos
The Empowerment Project's video list
Media Rights Searchable Database of activist videos
Native American Relations Video Catalogue
Satan Macnuggit Popular Arts Catlaog of subversive fun with lots of hard to find activist videos.
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Video Distributors Listed
Individual Videos and Producers with Videos
Available:
Corrections A look at the privatized prison industry
Independent Media In A Time of War
Fear and Favor in the Newsroom
Pickaxe Productions check out one of the finest Seattle videos produced yet ... Breaking the Spell
Storm from the Mountain: The Zapatistas Take Mexico City
This is What Democracy Looks Like!