The Fourth World War
Saturday Oct. 23, 2004
7 pm
UW Campus
Rm. 3650 Humanities Bldg.The new film The Fourth World War will have it's Madison premiere with producers/directors Rick Rowley and Jacqueline Soohen at 7 pm on the UW Campus, see Today in the Union for room. MRSCP is one of the co-sponsors of this film showing.
Shot on the frontlines of struggles spanning five continents, the The Fourth World War is the untold story of people who resist being annihilated in the current global conflict. The film 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, Seattle, Genoa and New York. The intensity and immediacy of its images are beyond anything the mainstream media can shoot, the intimacy and passion of its stories are beyond anything it can feel. Narrated by Tony Award winner Suheir Hammad and Singer Michael Franti of Spearhead, it is a radical story of hope and human connection in the face of a war that shatters and divides.
Richard Rowley and Jacqueline Soohen are New York based filmmakers whose groundbreaking feature documentaries Zapatista (1998), Black and Gold (1999), and This is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) have won top honors at hundreds of film festivals worldwide. Established video journalists, they have reported from Argentina, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, Ecuador, Brasil, East Timor, South Africa and Palestine, where they were the only video team to break the seige of the Church of the Nativity in 2002 in Bethlehem.
Free and open to the public. For info call 262-9036
