Spring 2006 Season

Shot in Washington DC on January 20, 2005, Aftershock: American Voices (Bob Grey, Anne Derwent) chronicles counter inaugural events. It is an inspirational piece featuring such anti-war notables as Celeste […]

In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went […]

Thousands of people try to cross the Mexico/U.S. border every year. Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) directed by Natalia Almada, tells the human story behind illegal immigration and drug […]

Awake Zion (Monica Haim) is a documentary that explores the unsuspecting connections between Rasta, Reggae, and Judaism, through one woman's beat-laden adventure into the meaning of identity. All the way […]

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival co-director Kathy Brew visits The Sanctuary For Independent Media to present a selection of shorts. Ryan is a 2004 Oscar®-winning animated short by Chris Landreth, […]

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Petr Lom, 2005) is the first film to document the custom of bride kidnapping, an ancient marriage tradition in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic in Central […]

Home (2005) will be presented by director Jeffrey Togman and cinematographer Pierre Defendini. On a gang-controlled, dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help […]

Dennis O'Rourke's latest documentary Land Mines: A Love Story (2004) is part observational and part essay – driven by a polemic that is both angry and subtle, and a damning […]

This lecture was built upon the following premises: first, any action within the cultural landscape performed from a minoritarian position will be perceived by authority as contestational act; and second, […]

Chasing Buddha (2000) is a documentary by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson about Robina Courtin, an Australian ex-Catholic, ex-political activist and feminist who has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. […]

Jim de Séve's 2004 documentary Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan […]

Mat Callahan's The Trouble with Music (2005) explores the crisis facing music. The signs are everywhere, from the saturation of public space by tuneful trivia to the digital downloading controversy. […]

Quantum leap, a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom), became the title of an […]

The creation of the Low Power FM radio service stands as one of the greatest successes in recent efforts for grassroots media reform. As a result, hundreds of new low […]

How to Turn Distress into Success: A Parable of War and its Making is a funny, poignant, radical, occasionally violent response to the 9/11 attacks, filtered through the coolest puppets […]

Author and filmmaker Heather Rogers will screen her documentary on the political history of rubbish in the United States, "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage" and talk about her […]

Lee Hirsch's 2002 film Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony documents South African musicians, playwrights, poets and activists as they recall the struggle against apartheid from the 1940s to the 1990s that stripped black citizens […]

Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe will discuss the field of "Transmission Arts," and free103point9. Free103point9 has an array of goals toward which it is perpetually working, each ultimately focused on […]

Barbara Ettinger's 2006 documentary Two Square Miles tracks the conflicts in the small town of Hudson, New York as a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to reshape the community. With […]

In Chris Bedford's and Shelley Morhaim's The Next Industrial Revolution (2001), architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design. While some environmental observers predict doomsday […]

While the international community passively looked on, the democratically elected president of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere was violently deposed twice. Aristide: and the Endless Revolution (2005) investigates the events […]

Art blends with politics as experimental music pioneer Pauline Oliveros and media artist Surajit Sarkar join creative forces at The Sanctuary For Independent Media!  Even as internet use has grown […]

The conscious hip hop group Broadcast Live brings music to The Sanctuary. 

Join the Beehive Collective for a high-energy picture-lecture. According to the The Beehive Collective:  Dismantling Monoculture is an anthology of three educational, visual narratives that illuminate the connections between colonization, […]

In director Imanga Ivunga's Dôlè (Dollar) (2000), the action takes place in Libreville, the capital city of Gabon, where four street kids scrape a living as a gang. Mougler, the […]

Roots reggae from Jamaica, by the masters.

The Golden Ball (Le ballon d’or) directed by Cheik Doukouré, Guinea/France, 1992, 90 minutes. Cheik Doukouré’s second feature celebrates the powerful dream of becoming an African soccer star, a dream […]

A concert with Pauline Oliveros (electronics), David Dove (trombone), Chris Cogburn (percussion), with the Children of the Ark Community Charter School (percussion). Students from the Ark Community Charter School in […]

Based on a novel by Ousmane Sembene, Niiwam (Clarence Thomas Delgando, Senegal, 1991, 80 min) recounts the travails of a young couple’s attempt to save the life of their infant […]

Michael Hurley is an American folk singer-songwriter who was essential to the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to playing a wide variety of instruments, Hurley is also a cartoonist and […]

Malentendu Colonial (The Colonial Misunderstanding) directed by Jean-Marie Teno, Cameroon, 2004, 78 minutes. The Colonial Misunderstanding is a bold exploration of Germany’s “African past”—specifically, its attempts to colonize parts of […]

A screening of film and video works in progress.

The Honest Weight Food Co-op's 13th Anniversary Film, The Honest Weight Food Co-op: A Really Great Place to Shop.

It's a macabre coming of age story taking place on a lighthouse on the last day of the world--the play features two writers/performers (Donna Sellinger and Madeline ffitch), one live […]

The secret history of hobo and railworker graffiti. Shot on freight trips across the western US over a period of 16 years, Who is Bozo Texino? chronicles the search for the source […]