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Jacob Young: "Dancing Outlaw"

                 

Somehow this 30 minute video biography of Jesco White, the "best" mountain dancer in West Virginia, manages to be simultaneously frightening, touching, and hilarious. Since originally airing on West Virginia public television, it's become something of a cult classic. "Jessie can be three people. He is Jessie, he is Jesco, and he is Elvis. Jessie is the most beautiful man that I could've ever loved. But Jesco... he is somebody else. He's the devil in hiself. Nothing satisfies him, he can't be happy, nothing you do for him makes him happy." - (Norma Gene White) "And I took the butcher knife and held it up to her neck. I said, 'If you want to live to see tomorrow, you better start frying them eggs a little bit better than what you've been frying them, and I'm tired of eating sloppy slimy eggs." - (Jesco White)

Steal This Film: Part 1

                 

. . . about filesharing, the pirate bay, and the future of the internet

Join the Resistance: Fall in Love

               
 

Directed by the 2003 City of Atlanta Emerging Award Recipient, Franklin Lopez. Narrated by Indigo Girl Amy Ray, this critically acclaimed short is inspired by the book ''Days of War, Nights of Love'' ''Chapter L is for Love'' by the Crimethinc Ex-Workers Collective (www.crimethinc.com). This film narrates this chapter and visually tells a story. The story is about two couples. One who followed the path that will most likely please society and the other too passionate about life to care what anyone thinks. (copyleft no rights reserved)

Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle)

                 

The 1973 film by French Situationist Guy Debord, based on the 1967 book of the same title, shows the dominating oppression of modernization of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces.  The hegemonic mass media operates as a propaganda machine in both communist and capitalist nations and creates commodity fetishism in the minds of the masses.

Steal This Movie!

               
 

Steal This Movie (2000) is an American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. It was directed by Robert Greenwald and the screenplay was written by Bruce Graham. It is based on a number of books including To america with Love: Letters From the Underground by Anita and Abbie Hoffman and Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer. The film follows Abbie Hoffman's (Vincent D'Onofrio) relationship with his second wife Anita (Janeane Garofalo) and their awakening and subsequent conversion to an activist life. The title of the film is a play on Hoffman's 1970 counter-culture guidebook titled Steal This Book.

Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise

                 

This documentary examines the turbulent life in California of political philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), author of One-Dimensional Man, Reason and Revolution and Eros and Civilization, among other books, professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego, and a visionary and influential force for the student movement worldwide during the Sixties and Seventies. Blending archival footage, interviews, re- created scenes and voice-over narration, the video profiles not only the life of Marcuse but also the history of student protest and social activism. The video features interviews with Marcuse's student Angela Davis, former UCSD Chancellor William McGill, colleagues Fredric Jameson and Reinhard Lettau, and rare footage of Marcuse and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Directed by Paul Alexander Juutilainen

Global Dimming

                 

This is a documentary that deals with a climatic phenomenon that has been seriously underestimated and how this should forc us to recognise that global warming is a far greater threath than has previously been assumed. It's from the BBC so it's very good, clear and to the point. A must see for anyone wondering about the state of the Earth.