THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND :: Sam Green, Bill Siegel :: February 28, 19:00

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, thumb Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, myocarditis Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, prescription culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”
Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, thumb Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, myocarditis Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, prescription culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”
Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, dosage Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”

Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, thumb Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, myocarditis Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, prescription culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”
Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, dosage Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”

Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, dosage Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”

Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (1968, no rx USA)
Director: William Greaves
Duration: 75 min
Film proposed by Fia Backstrom

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is a documentary written and directed by William Greaves. The film involves Greaves auditioning acting students for a fictional drama while shooting a free-form behind-the-scenes drama.
In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, help
director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. A couple enacts a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies. Criterion presents this long-unreleased gem in a special two-disc edition, along with its sequel, Take 2 1/2, made thirty-five years later with executive producers Steven Soderbergh and Steve Buscemi.

National Society of Film Critics honored Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2 1/2 with its 2005 Experimental Award, calling the films a “remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set.”

See online:
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/460

Saturday, February 7, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, thumb Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, myocarditis Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, prescription culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”
Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, dosage Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”

Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

CZECH DREAM (2004, dosage Czech Republic)
Directors: Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Duration: 90 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

Czech Dream is a documentary film directed by two young Czech directors: Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda. The film was released in February 2004. It recorded a large-scale hoax perpetuated by Klusák and Remunda on the Czech public, culminating in the “opening event” of a fake hypermarket. The film was their final project for film school.
Remunda and Klusák invented the “ÄŒeský sen” hypermarket and created a massive advertising campaign around it. Posing as businessmen, the two film students managed to persuade an ad agency and a public relations agency to create a campaign for them. Billboards appeared on Czech highways, and 200,000 pamphlets were distributed in Prague. A jingle was recorded, and there was a series of television commercials. The advertising campaign slogans were “don’t come” and “don’t spend”, etc. Still, the filmmakers succeeded in attracting more than 3000 shoppers.
The idea for the hoax came from a 2002 study by Incoma Research reporting that 30% of Czechs shop mainly at hypermarkets. There has been growing concern in the country about the growth of consumerism.
How easily we can fool ourselves is perhaps summed up by a quote in the film. Somewhere in the middle of the advertising campaign, the employees of the advertising agency (BBDO) have some moral doubts about advertising untrue things. One of them says: “Maybe you filmmakers lie to people, but we advertisers don’t!”

Awards:
•    Traverse City Film Festival (dir. Michael Moore), USA 2005: Best Nonfiction Film Award
•    FFFB.be Filmfestival Brussel 2005, Belgium: Prize Be TV for best Film
•    2005 Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) Chelyabinsk, Russia: Award for the Best Directing Award
•    45th Cracow Film Festival 2005, Poland: People’s Choice Award
•    48th San Francisco International Film Festival, USA 2005: Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature
•    2005 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea: JJ-Star Award
•    Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow 2005: Silver Grape Award
•    2005 Febiofest, Czech Republic: Best Documentary Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics)
•    Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004: Best Documentary Award
•    International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004:
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award
•    International Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004: FIPRESCI Award
•    Has been nominated by the Film Academy in Prague for the student Oscars

See online:
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000666.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Dream

Saturday, February 21, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (1968, no rx USA)
Director: William Greaves
Duration: 75 min
Film proposed by Fia Backstrom

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is a documentary written and directed by William Greaves. The film involves Greaves auditioning acting students for a fictional drama while shooting a free-form behind-the-scenes drama.
In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, help
director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. A couple enacts a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies. Criterion presents this long-unreleased gem in a special two-disc edition, along with its sequel, Take 2 1/2, made thirty-five years later with executive producers Steven Soderbergh and Steve Buscemi.

National Society of Film Critics honored Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2 1/2 with its 2005 Experimental Award, calling the films a “remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set.”

See online:
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/460

Saturday, February 7, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane

[illegal_cinema] PRESENTS

THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND (2002, here USA)
Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Duration: 92 min
Film from the illegal_cinema Belgrade archive

In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows. Thus began the “Days of Rage,” the first demonstration of the Weathermen, later known as the Weather Underground. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, this group of former student radicals waged a low-level war against the United States government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Weathermen including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and David Gilbert speak frankly about the idealist passions and trajectories that transformed them from college activists into the FBI’s Most Wanted.
The Weather Underground emerged when Dohrn and a group of fellow University of Chicago students split with the campus-run Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, because they disagreed with the SDS’s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”—“you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country that it considered emblematic of the worldwide violence sanctioned by the U.S. government.
As an exploration of the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time, the film also features rare footage and interviews with former SDS members and the Black Panthers, further examining the U.S. government’s suppression of dissent during the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, former Weather Underground members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times and the forces that drove their resistance home.

Awards:
•    Documentary award, Seattle International Film Festival, 2003
•    Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2003
•    Marlon Riggs Award, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, 2003
•    Critics Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival, 2003
•    Nomination IDA Award, International Documentary Association, 2003
•    Nomination for Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, 2003
•    Nomination DGA Award,Directors Guild of America, 2004
•    Nomination Academy Awards, USA, 2004

See online:
http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/The-Weather-Underground
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
http://www.samgreen.to/store/#weathe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Underground

Saturday, February 28, 19:00
TÃœTÃœN DEPOSU
Lüleci Hendek caddesi 12 / Tophane