<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Oliver Ressler</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oliver@ressler.at">oliver@ressler.at</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:07 PM<br>
Subject: [Newsletter] Film screenings: Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?<br>To: <a href="mailto:newsletter@ressler.at">newsletter@ressler.at</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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<font size="+1">SOCIALISM FAILED, CAPITALISM IS BANKRUPT. WHAT COMES
NEXT?<br>
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A film by Oliver Ressler, 19 min, 2010<br>
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Upcoming screenings:<br>
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Beijing New Youth Film Festival, Bejing (PRC), 14/09/11, 2 pm<br>
<a href="http://www.austrosinoartsprogram.org" target="_blank">http://www.austrosinoartsprogram.org</a><br>
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�Afghan-Kuzminki. Human Oratorio�, Victoria Gallery, part of 4th
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (RU), 25/09/11, 8 pm<br>
<a href="http://4th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects/afgan_en.html" target="_blank">http://4th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects/afgan_en.html</a><br>
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Document 9, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (UK)<br>
21/10/11, 8 pm; followed by a Q & A session with O. Ressler,
led by Katarzyna Kosmala<br>
<a href="http://documentfilmfestival.org" target="_blank">http://documentfilmfestival.org</a>
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The 2-channel video installation �Socialism Failed, Capitalism is
Bankrupt. What comes Next?� is currently presented in the
exhibition:<br>
�The Workers�<br>
MASS MoCA � Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
(USA)<br>
till Mar 15, 2012<br>
<a href="http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=631" target="_blank">http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=631</a>
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�Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?�
focuses on the political and economic situation in the Republic of
Armenia, one of the successor states of the Soviet Union. The film
was recorded in summer 2010 in Yerevan�s largest bazaar, called
�Bangladesh�. Every day more than 1000 people try to survive as
traders in the �Bangladesh� bazaar, where an average vendor does
not earn more than 100 to 250 Euros per month. In the film, the
market�s traders talk about their struggles to survive during
crises in a post-socialist state that closed most Soviet-era
factories and dissolved social safety nets. The market�s traders,
primarily former factory-workers, describe how their living
conditions worsened after the end of the Soviet Union; they speak
about their hopes and expectations for social change. While they
live in misery, a small but highly influential class of corrupt
politicians and super-rich oligarchs team up with international
corporations in order to fill their pockets with profits from
transferring state property and licenses for mining.<br>
A former mathematics professor Levon Yeremyan, who now survives by
trading in the �Bangladesh� bazaar, notes, �95 per cent of people
work and get the minimum wage, which is ridiculously low by
European standards, and 5 per cent live like Arab sheikhs.� Most
people would definitely agree with his description of the wide gap
between the impoverished masses and the oligarchs in Armenia. This
deep divide contradicts the official flattering data.<br>
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<small>Concept, camera, sound recording, video editing and
production: Oliver Ressler<br>
Interviews, translation and editing assistance: Arpineh Galfayan<br>
Audio mix and color correction: Rudi Gottsberger<br>
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The project was done during a residency in Yerevan in the
framework of the project �Eat and Work�, directed by Anna
Barseghian, supported by Utopiana and BM:UKK.</small><br>
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Check out the film online at <a href="http://www.ressler.at/socialism_failed/" target="_blank">http://www.ressler.at/socialism_failed/</a><br>
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<small>Image: </small></font><small><font size="+1"><small>2-channel
video installation and floor piece at </small></font><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow
(PL)</span></small>
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