THE FOURTH WORLD WAR

31. oktober 09 Kl. 18.30 - Sal 1. Filmen er en del av Spis de Rikes 10-års jubileum

4th World War is a powerful new film from the makers of 'This Is What Democracy Looks Like', 'Zapatista', and 'Black & Gold'. It weaves together the stories of movements against empire from Palestine, Iraq, Chiapas, Argentina, South Africa, South Korea to Quebec City and Genoa.

While American airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human face of war is rarely seen. The Fourth World War weaves together the images and voices of the war on the ground - from the front lines of struggles in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, the North from Seattle to Genova, and the War on Terror in New York and Iraq. It takes a look too at the connections between global war and empire building with economic warfare.

The product of over two years of filming, The Fourth World War is a new kind of film for a new world. The intensity and immediacy of its images are beyond anything the mainstream media canshoot, the intimacy and passion of its stories are beyond anything itcan feel. Directed by the award winning New York-based Big NoiseFilms, and narrated by Tony Award winner Suheir Hammadand Singer Michael Franti of Spearhead, it is aradical story of hope and human connection in the face of a war that shatters and divides.

The Fourth World War premiered in four sold out shows at The International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) in lateNovember, and it has already sent shockwaves through the independentfilm world. It has been translated into Spanish, Italian and Koreanwith Greek, French and German versions on the way. The Fourth WorldWar will be launched in North America at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in January.




4WW is a master piece of counter propaganda adding new dimentions to the documentary genre by the way it is useing music and political poetry to get the story out. This combined by the mercyless crossediting between pictures from big protests,( we attended ourselves, recalling the feeling of beeing enpowered by the movement on the offensive) and on the other hand the pictures from the terror and despair forced upon the people living in the fireingline of the imperialist wars. The same kind of pictures that made us so angry that we had to protest in the first place. This mix has a heavy emotional inpact, and you may have to cry a bit if you still got your human emotion itact.
I wish that as many people as possible get the chance to see it.
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