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PARALLAX VIEW: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMAGES
(free and open to the public)
Austin, Texas September 22-24, 2006 (at The Victory Grill 1104 E. 11th street)


APOCALYPSE NIGH: DEATH AND TERROR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Friday September 22nd
6:30-8:30pm
Palestine Blues dir. Nida Sinnokrot 80 min. (followed by Q&A with filmmaker)

9:00-10pm
Samidoun: A Multimedia Journey Through the 34-Day War in Lebanon and Its Aftermath
with Andrew Stern which interweaves video, still photography and audio collected in the field with video by Democracy Now!'s Ana Nogueira


REMAKING NEW ORLEANS FROM BELOW
Saturday September 23rd
1:00-1:30pm
Local Anti-Racist Organizing and the History of the Victory Grill presented by Eva Lindsey (venue's manager and long-time community activist)

1:30-2:30pm
Three Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (trailer) 5 min
Robert King Wilkerson, a former Black Panther, speaks about the history of classism and racism in Louisiana including his personal history of spending 32 incarcerated, 29 of those in solitary confinement in Angola Prison, for a crime of which he was exonerated in 2001.

2:30-4:00pm (short films from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina)
South of Ten dir. Liza Johnson 10 min.
Cataclysm In New Orleans dir. Ralph Klein / Elias Scheideler 59 min.
Solidarity Not Charity dir. Common Ground Collective 21min.

4:00-5:00pm
Common Ground Relief organizers Scott Crow, Lisa Fithian and Malik Rahim (former Black Panther and long-time prison activist) will speak about the collectives history and relief efforts in New Orleans

5:30-7pm
Food and Activism
Nubian Queen Lola will speak about the power of food to gather organizers and conjure solidarity
followed by a Parallax dinner catered by Nubian Queen Lola's Cajun, Soul Food Kitchen.

6:30-8pm
Music by Big Chief Kevin Goodman and The Flaming Arrows
Experts at New Orleans second-line funk


TORTURE EXPRESS: THE RISING COST OF FREEDOM
Sunday September 24th

1:00-1:30pm
It's Not My Memory of It by Speculative Archive/Julia Meltzer and David Thorne 25 min.

1:30-3:00pm
Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the 'War on Terror' by WITNESS 30 min

3:00-4:00pm
Muckraking for the Masses an investigative journalism workshop with A.C. Thompson

4:00-5:00pm
N4467S: On the Trail of the CIAs Torture Planes a multimedia presentation with Trevor Paglen exhibiting his investigative art/geography/journalism project in which he spies on the CIA.
followed by a discussion between A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen about their soon to be released book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights