AKA

747 Presents Prison World
February 28th @ 7:47pm, AKA
A short documentary about the Prison Revolts in Greece in 2007
(DIY, 35 minutes, subtitles, 2008)

In the morning of Monday, April 23, 2007, prisoners at the prison of Malandrino in Fokida, mainland Greece, revolted. The spark igniting the revolt was the beating of anarchist prisoner Yiannis Dimitrakis as well as the vicious, violent response of the guards to the protests staged by his co-prisoners. The revolt spread to at least 11 other prisons and lasted for 4 days.

Prisons in Greece are not unfamiliar with revolts and protests, due in large part to the political use of prisons as a means of repression by the Greek state, and the inhumane conditions within them. November 2008 saw a month of prison revolt involving some 90% of Greece’s 11,700 prisoners.

The film will be followed by a banner and sign-making party hosted by End the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC) for the picket called for by the Save Our Farms Coalition at Corrections Canada Regional Headquarters on Monday morning at 7:30am. More info: http://www.saveourfarms.ca or email epic (at) riseup.net

Join us at 7:30 pm on October 18th for a screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s film ‘Shortbus’!

At 7:30 we will commence a 1/2 hour fun-filled interactive workshop with folks from the Sexual Health Resource Centre, including games. The SHRC crew will also be bringing a sex toy kit and will answer any of your questions. Come and bring your friends. Movie starts at 8pm!

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Spatially connected through a cartoon New York City, a number of individuals’ stories develop: there’s Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a frigid sex counselor who’s unhappily married to Rob (Raphael Barker) “the two Jamies,” (Paul Dawson and PJ DeBoy) who struggle with their relationship, searching new paths of sexual enlightenment; and a lonely, Polaroid-obsessed dominatrix to trust fund hipsters.

These stories and others meet in the secret downtown club that gives the film its name, a “salon for the gifted and challenged” where initiates go to eat “potcorn,” participate in orgies, or just watch as self-proclaimed orgasmic superheroes do their thing.

See the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL3GvP8UZjk

Trash Palace – “Toronto’s Classiest Cinema” – is proud to present THE TRASH ON WHEELS FILM PARTY – a back-to-school touring show of classroom films, cartoons and more from the files of Canada’s most demented film fanatics!

Hosted by Trash Palace programmer Jonathan Culp, TRASH ON WHEELS brings a full evening of lost, forgotten and undiscovered gems from the celluloid dumpsters of our nation to your town. Armed with their trusty 16mm film projector, a trunkload of film reels from the 60s and 70s, cold drinks, and a fully stocked snack bar (including handmade vegan truffles from Boardwalk Chocolates!) Trash Palace will give you a taste of the madness that we’ve been dishing out at our home base for over two years.

With a constantly changing lineup of titles – partially selected by the audience via the “Trash Palace Applause-O-Meter” – every screening is a whole new ballgame. Will you see angry puppets smacking around their friends? Evil dancing cigarettes? Washed up pop stars ranting about LSD? Christian college students partying with the Virgin Mary? Animated sex ed lessons? Or masked headmasters wielding lawnmowers?

This is no stinkin’ film festival – it’s THE TRASH ON WHEELS FILM PARTY!

TRASH PALACE, named “the 11th best place to watch a film in Toronto” by BlogTO, shows shorts and features every Friday at their secret location. The Toronto Star writes, “It lives up to its seamy potential…the fun is pure, untainted by cynicism, high expectations or irony.” And the National Post observes, “Trash Palace’s screenings promise the best in films that somebody out there was desperate to get rid of.” Check them out at http://www.trashpalace.ca.

Doors @ 7:30, films @ 8

$5 to enter, and no one turned away for lack of funds.

For more information or interviews, please contact Jonathan Culp at trashonwheels@cheesemovie.com

Screening “GROUND NOISE AND STATIC” followed by Q+A w/ filmmaker FRANKLIN LOPEZ
Saturday, November 1st at 7:30pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre
75 Queen Street (@ Wellington)
FREE Admission

After our attempt to bring the RNC Welcoming Committee to Kingston was thwarted by the U.S. Government, we finally got our shit together and bring you: Ground Noise and Static.

Ground Noise and Static is a video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. While corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”

Ground Noise & Static is a joint effort of Franklin López of subMedia and PepperSpray Productions. It is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their “Unconventional” stories.

Filmmaker Bio: Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lopez has been media jamming since he started subMedia in 1994. His CrimethInc inspired films have been screened worldwide and translated into several languages. His post-Katrina music video ‘George Bush Don’t Like Black People’ has been downloaded over one million times and counting. Lopez’s work has been featured and/or written about in The New York Times, Wired, Contour, BET, Current TV, Free Speech TV, the Georgia Straight and Creative Loafing to name a few. More recently he worked as TV producer for Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” In the works is a VLOG called “It’s the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine” and issue #2 of subMedia’s Zine “Molotov!” You can view Lopez’s work on his web site http://submedia.tv