This third annual “exploration of international movements in the digital underground of electronic media” runs Saturday through Thursday, October 16 through 21, at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Admission is $9, $5 for Film Center members; for more information call 312-846-2600.
Short digital animations from the Netherlands and the U.S. 75 min. a Sunday, October 17, 3:30 PM; Wednesday, October 20, 6:15 PM
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Greg Palast conducts a muckraking probe of the Bush dynasty, but most of the muck has been common knowledge for some time (e.g., Prescott Bush had business interests in Nazi Germany, the Bush fortune is tied up in Saudi oil, and George W. Bush used his father’s connections to avoid service in Vietnam). An investigative reporter for the BBC, Palast significantly undermines his 2003 video with tedious gumshoe shtick–trench coats, fedoras, etc. 70 min. (Cliff Doerksen) a Monday, October 18, 6:30 PM
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
This 1999 video by Craig Baldwin is a ragtag fabric of sci-fi and conspiracy-theory tropes, most of it woven out of found footage from vintage scientific and instructional films. It might have made for an interesting short, but at 99 minutes it long overstays its welcome. (Cliff Doerksen) a Monday, October 18, 8 PM
Weapons of Mass Deception
