{"id":68,"date":"2011-05-27T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/?p=68"},"modified":"2011-06-20T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:02:25","slug":"jay-lemieux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/jay-lemieux.php","title":{"rendered":"Short Docs: A Night of Cultural Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short Docs: A Night of Cultural Resistance!<\/p>\n<p>Taking  place in the beautiful XPression Gallery, this night of short  documentaries features work about the corporate takeover of land and  culture and the people who are resisting them!\u00c2\u00a0 Documentaries include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mines Bases&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Refusons toute complicit\u00c3\u00a9 avec les abus de droits humains perp\u00c3\u00a9tr\u00c3\u00a9s aux 4  coins du monde par les mini\u00c3\u00a8res canadiennes. Refusons le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/minesbasses.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-196\" title=\"minesbasses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/minesbasses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>d\u00c3\u00a9sastre  \u00c3\u00a9cologique des n\u00c3\u00a9oconservateurs nord-am\u00c3\u00a9ricains. Le plan nord de Jean  Charest, les sables bitumineux de Stephen Harper et les gaz de schistes  de Nathalie Normandeau et Lucien Bouchard sont autant d&#8217;objectifs  complices d&#8217;une dilapidation des derni\u00c3\u00a8res richesses naturelles de la  plan\u00c3\u00a8te.<\/p>\n<p>Refusons l&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9conomie de la guerre qui n&#8217;a plus aucun sens avec les besoins de nos communaut\u00c3\u00a9s locales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wal-Mart Culture Jam&#8221; (10 mins, 2008)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wal-mart-screen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-203\" title=\"wal-mart-screen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wal-mart-screen-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wal-mart-screen-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wal-mart-screen.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>Theatre activists from  Scotland and the UK come to Montreal and  transport a live sweatshop into  a wal-mart store and set up shot.\u00c2\u00a0 This  guerilla Video will make you  scream with laughter as security scramble  to control the situation and  shoppers look scared and confused.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/good.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-193\" title=\"good\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/good-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/good-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/good.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Invisible Global Theatre&#8221; (12 mins, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the infamous &#8220;Coppertone Jam&#8221; this documentary breaks down Optative Theatrical Laboratorie&#8217;s activist tactic of &#8220;Global Invisible Theatre&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 This 12 minute documentary breaks down all the steps involved in order to complete this action by showing examples of culture jams that OTL has done in the last 10 years.\u00c2\u00a0 With moments of insight and hilarity, this short will hopefully inspire others to follow in OTL&#8217;s footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remembering Bagua&#8221; (22min, 2011) is a short documentary film that examines an under-reported violent conflict that arose in Bagua, Peru in June 2009.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/remebering-bagua1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195 alignright\" title=\"remebering bagua\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/remebering-bagua1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indigenous Awajun and Wampis activists from the Peruvian Amazon protested against new laws created by the Peruvian government that allow international companies to extract oil, gas and minerals from the Amazon without adequately consulting the indigenous people. Violence ensued which left 34 people dead, and over 200 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>This footage was mostly filmed at the Bagua Massacre Memorial, which took place in June 2010 in northern Peru. The filmmakers recorded testimonials related to the causes and aftermath of the tragic Bagua conflict, and focused on bringing forward the voices of local people, who are concerned about environmental devastation and the impact of oil and mining on water quality and local health.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit their blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/ rememberingbagua.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">r<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rememberingbagua.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">ememberingbagua.blogspot.com<\/a><br \/>\nWatch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_tJ0XhbB7g\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anna Luisa Daigneault is an anthropologist, musician and activist from Montreal, currently residing in Berkeley, California. She works with indigenous people in the south-central Peruvian Amazon, focusing on endangered language and music documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Bronwen Moen is visual artist from British Columbia who combines painting, sculpture, video and movement, and she is currently residing in Montreal, Canada. Her work focuses on relationships between the natural and manufactured world, and the permeability of bodies.<\/p>\n<p>June 20th<br \/>\nXpression Gallery<br \/>\n5334 Rue de Gasp\u00c3\u00a9 (Suite 308)<br \/>\n7:30 pm<br \/>\nPay-What-You-Can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short Docs: A Night of Cultural Resistance! Taking place in the beautiful XPression Gallery, this night of short documentaries features work about the corporate takeover of land and culture and the people who are resisting them!\u00c2\u00a0 Documentaries include: &#8220;Mines Bases&#8221; Refusons toute complicit\u00c3\u00a9 avec les abus de droits humains perp\u00c3\u00a9tr\u00c3\u00a9s aux 4 coins du monde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,24,23,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archivemtl.infringementfestival.com\/fest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}