War! Protest in America 1965-2004 brings together documentary and experimental films motivated by the political and social turbulence of the past 40 years-films engaged with civil rights, black power, personal liberation and political action. The program is co-organized by Whitney Museum curator Chrissie Iles and artist Sam Durant and presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and REDCAT. Durant and Iles present and speak about the films.

OCTOBER 26, 8:30 pm
President's Ideas & Dialogues:
WAR, CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE ARTS
A Conversation with Sam Durant, Martin Plot and Stephen Rohde
General admission $8; Students, CalArts staff/faculty, and Alumni Affinity Card holders $5; CalArts students free.

CalArts president Steven D. Lavine, artist and CalArts faculty member Sam Durant, former president of the Southern California branch of ACLU Stephen Rohde, and political and social theorist Martin Plot in discussion about art and civil liberties in an era of global fears, with a special screening.

Julie Talen's Sixty Cameras Against the War; Video, color, sound; 25 min.
Sixty cameras independently filming the New York march against the war in Iraq on February 15, 2003 are edited by Talen into a document of voices raised in protest.

DAILY CONTINUOUS SCREENINGS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31
In the Lobby

Please note that daily screenings will run continuously beginning at 12:00pm until approximately 6:00 p.m. The screenings are free and will take place in the lobby. All films will be shown on DVD.

12:00pm

Third World Newsreel, America
1969. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 31:30 min.
Clips of teenagers, Vietnam veterans, and black militants expressing frustration with the escalating war in Vietnam are interwoven with footage of police brutality at home and war abroad, set to a background of 1960s rock classics, including the lyric "America, where are you now?"

Brigitte Cornand, Not in Our Name
2003. Video, color, sound; 62 min.
Cornand interviews artists Edouard Glissant, Leon Golub, Jonas Mekas, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra, Rob Storr, and Lawrence Weiner on the eve of America's war in Iraq.

Third World Newsreel, Resist?-with Noam Chomsky
1968. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 6:30 min.
This recently discovered film shows Noam Chomsky in the late 1960s as he speaks candidly about the war in Vietnam.

Third World Newsreel, No Game
1968. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 16:30 min.
In October 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington demanding an end to the Vietnam War. Several filmmakers pooled their footage to produce this documentation of the peaceful march, which ended in the occupation of the grounds of the Pentagon.

2:00 pm

Third World Newsreel, Only the Beginning
1971. 16mm film, color, sound; 17:30 min.
In April 1971, thousands of GIs came to Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War and, in a powerful symbolic gesture, stood in front of the Capitol and threw away their medals. Told from their point of view, the film examines some of the conditions that led many decorated but disillusioned veterans to their dramatic action.

Larry Everest, Iraq: War Against the People
1991, Video, color, sound; 29 min.
This powerful video documents the effects of the U.S. military assault in the Gulf. Traveling through Iraq in the Summer of 1991, Larry Everest interviewed Iraqi people about the war, the bombings and their life afterwards. This video brings us those voices, along with sights from Iraqi hospitals, refugee camps and bombed cities.

Jake Leed, Mary Leed, Pat Myers, Richard Myers, Carla Olrich, Robert Olrich, Mel Someroski, and Mike Tarr, Confrontation at Kent State
1970. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 43 min.
On May 4, 1970, the National Guard fired on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding others. This film, made by members of the faculty and the student body, documents this confrontation, including interviews with students, people in the town of Kent, and a member of the National Guard.

Richard Myers, Allison
1970. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 10 min.
A portrait of Allison Krause, one of the four students killed at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard, assembled from footage Myers and others had unknowingly filmed of Krause during previous student demonstrations.

4:00pm

Julie Talen, Sixty Cameras Against the War, 2004. Video, color, sound; 115 min.
Raw footage independently shot by sixty protesters during the New York march against the war in Iraq on February 15, 2003, is woven by Talen into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a protest fractured by barricades.

EVENING PROGRAM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31
In the theater

General admission $8; Students, CalArts staff/faculty, and Alumni Affinity Card holders $5; CalArts students free.

Screenings in this program will take place in the theater and will be shown in its original format whenever possible.

6:00pm

Norman Yonemoto, Second Campaign
1969. 16mm, black-and-white, color, sound; 20 min.
This seminal film by the eminent West Coast artist and filmmaker chronicles events during the People's Park demonstrations in Berkeley.

Paul Sharits, Piece Mandala/End War
1966. 16mm film, black-and-white and color, sound; 5 min.

Stan Vanderbeek, Poem Field no. 7
1966/1969. 16mm film, color, sound; 9 min.

Storm De Hirsch, Trap Dance, 1968. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 1:30 min.
End War flashes out of Paul Sharits's violently pulsating mandala; Stan Vanderbeek's computer patterns animate activist A.J. Muste's statement "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way," to a soundtrack by John Cage; Storm De Hirsch creates a protest film of black and white gestural marks.

Carolee Schneemann, Viet-Flakes, 1966. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 11 min. Sound collage by James Tenney
Composed of Vietnam atrocity photographs culled from newspapers and magazines, Schneemann's disturbing collage film was a central element of Snows (1966), her kinetic theater piece expressing moral outrage at the war's seemingly endless destruction.

7:00pm

Discussion with artist and CalArts faculty member Sam Durant and Whitney Museum's Chrissie Iles, co-curators of WAR! PROTEST IN AMERICA, 1965-2004.

8:30pm

Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, and DA Pennebaker, One PM
1972. 16mm film, color, sound; 95 min.
In 1968 in Chicago, on the eve of what he predicted would be a revolution in the United States, Jean-Luc Godard embarked on a collaborative project with American documentarists Leacock and Pennebaker. After Godard abandoned the project, the footage was edited by Leacock and Pennebaker into One PM ("One Perfect Movie"), in which Jefferson Airplane, Rip Torn, Eldridge Cleaver, and others articulate the attitude of a young generation toward the political system in America at the end of the 1960s.

Descriptions of Newsreel films are adapted from the Third World Newsreel catalogue.

(The Whitney's film series runs from August 29-October 24. For information on screenings in New York visit www.whitney.org)

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