Journalist Dahr Jamail of Iraq Dispatches
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesIn 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 […]
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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Al Otro Lado”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThousands 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 […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Awake Zion”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesAwake 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 & Video Festival’s Kathy Brew Presents: “Ryan,” “Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night,” “Phantom Limb”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesMargaret 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, […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan,” “Children of the Decree”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesBride 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 […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Home,” with Filmmakers Jeffrey Togman and Pierre Defendini
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesHome (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 […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Land Mines: A Love Story”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesDennis 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 […]
Steve Kurtz of the Critical Arts Ensemble Speaking on “Art and Discipline”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThis 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, […]
Prison Activist Robina Courtin and “Chasing Buddha”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesChasing 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. […]
“Tying the Knot” with Filmmaker Jim de Séve
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesJim 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 […]
“The Trouble With Music” with Author Mat Callahan
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesMat 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 Leaps” with Video Curator Astria Suparak
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 […]
Prometheus Radio Project Presents “The Spectrum Roadshow”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThe 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 […]
Bread and Puppet Theater Presents: “How to Turn Distress Into Success: A Parable of War and Its Making”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesHow 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 […]
“Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage” with Filmmaker and Author Heather Rogers
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesAuthor 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 […]
“Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesLee 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 & Tom Roe of free103point9 on “Transmission Arts” 
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesGalen 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 […]
“Two Square Miles” with Filmmaker Barbara Ettinger and Friends of Hudson Founder Sam Pratt
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesBarbara 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 […]
“The Next Industrial Revolution” Screening with Community Potluck
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesIn 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 […]
“Aristide and the Endless Revolution” with Filmmaker Nicolas Rossier
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesWhile 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 […]
