Out of Competition


WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE



Country of production: USA
Year: 2003
Language: English
Mins: 52

Director: Video Activist Network (No Empire
Script: Video Activist Network (No Empire)
Cinematography:Video Activist Network
Music: Nommo Oggo, Neighborhood
Editing: Video Activist Network (No Empire)
Sound: Video Activist Network (No Empire)
Producer: Video Activist Network
(No Empire)
Production company: No Empire Productions
Source: Rana
Whispered Media
PO Box 40130
San Francisco, CA 94140, USA
Phone: +1 415 552 7959
info@videoactivism.org
www.videoactivism.org/empire.html

As the U.S. invaded Iraq, activists invaded San Francisco's streets. In this movie, the San Francisco Video Activist Network presents an unflinching look at the Bay Area's radical resistance to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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 last year's invasion of Iraq. The audio backdrop draws from San Francisco Indymedia's "Enemy Combatant Radio" as well as the San Francisco Police Department's police scanners, while the video is culled from scores of independent camerapeople who took to the streets.

"This is 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." (Filmmaker and Curator Craig Baldwin)

The Video Activists' Network is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns. Sixteen of these video activists came together to make WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE in April, 2003.

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WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE (2003)

Sunday 04-Apr-2004 9:00 PM Facets Cinematheque
Screening with QAEDA, QUALITY, QUESTION, QUICKLY, QUICKLY, QUIET,
STORMING THE SUMMIT