With subMedia's Franklin Lopez
Thursday, December 4, 8pm, free
Since its humble beginnings in 1994, subMedia has grown from a small group of determined filmmakers into a grassroots network of socially and politically engaged artists and individuals. subMedia scrutinizes popular culture and media through the production of film, performance art, video, music and zines.
Equal parts performance and protest, an attitude of art following action defines subMedia’s productions. From the regularly released and highly produced video blog “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”, to the collaborative documentary “Ground Noise and Static”, their work injects a radical analysis into the culture in a most entertaining way.
Please join subMedia founder, director and producer Franklin Lopez (aka The Stimulator) as he steps out from behind the talking boxes to tour us through a video montage of his latest works, mixing culture jamming, news, radical commentary, music and action.
ABOUT FRANKLIN LOPEZ
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and based in Vancouver, Canada, Lopez has been media jamming since he started subMedia in 1994. His CrimethInc inspired films have been screened worldwide and translated into several languages. His post-Katrina music video 'George Bush Don't Like Black People' has been downloaded over one million times and counting. Lopez's work has been featured and/or written about in The New York Times, Wired, Contour, BET, Current TV, Free Speech TV, the Georgia Straight and Creative Loafing to name a few. More recently he worked as TV producer for Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now!" He produces a VLOG called "It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine" and released issue #2 of subMedia's Zine "Molotov!" You can view Lopez's work at http://subMedia.TV.
ABOUT “GROUND NOISE & STATIC”
A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”
Ground Noise & Static is a joint effort of Franklin López of subMedia.TV and PepperSpray Productions. It is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their “Unconventional” stories.
http://subMedia.tv
http://peppersprayproductions.org/
