ANDY BICHLBAUM OF THE YES MEN

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (The Yes Men) are culture jamming activists/performance artists who have been called "the Jonathan Swift of the Jackass generation" by author Naomi Klein. They infiltrate the world of big business and smuggle out stories that are shocking and hilarious. They call what they do "identity correction," pretending to be spokespeople for prominent organizations (such as the WTO, McDonalds, and Dow Chemical) on television and at corporate conferences. Their outrageous, yet credible, charades (proposing, for example, to sell recycled human waste to feed the poor), often taken seriously by their audiences, expose the way corporations and governmental organizations act in dehumanizing and destructive ways. Their activities were recounted in the 2004 documentary The Yes Men and more recent actions are documented in their latest, jaw-dropping production, The Yes Men Fix the World. An exhibition, Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, will run from April 30 to June 5, 2010 at DiverseWorks in Houston.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14

The Yes Men Fix The World
7:00 PM  |  Rice Cinema Theater, Rice University, Houston TX

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15

The Yes Men Fix The World
1:00 PM  |  Angelika Film Center, Houston TX

JENNIFER REEVES

Jennifer Reeves is a New York-based filmmaker working primarily on 16mm (a medium that, as her online blog and her own creations testify, is "Not Dead Yet"). Her subjective and personal films push the boundaries of film through opticalprinting, film stock "mis-use," and direct-on-film techniques (including hand painting and sewing 16mm film). Reeves has consistently explored themes of memory, mental health and recovery, feminism and sexuality, landscape, wildlife, and politics in her work since the early ‘90s.

Reeves has also made a number of experimental narratives, most notably her highly acclaimed feature The Time We Killed. The 2004 film won the FIPRESCI Critics prize at the Berlin Film Festival, Outstanding Artistic Achievement at OUTFEST, and Best NY, NY Narrative Feature at Tribeca Film Festival.

Since 2003 Reeves has collaborated with some of the finest composer/ musicians today, including Anthony Burr, Skúli Sverrisson, Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins, and Marc Ribot. In 2003, Reeves expanded her work as a "single strand filmmaker" by creating multiple-projection films, to be performed with live original music. This direction in her work began with He Walked Away and has culminated in her recent work, When It Was Blue.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Panel: Experimental Film and Visual Arts
1:00 PM  |  Alabama Theater, Houston TX

When It Was Blue
7:00 PM  |  Rice Cinema Theater, Rice University, Houston TX

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14

The Time We Killed
1:00 PM  |  Rice Cinema Theater, Rice University, Houston TX

HOLLY FISHER

Holly Fisher has been active since the mid-sixties as independent filmmaker, teacher, and editor of feature documentaries including 1989 Academy Award® nominee Who Killed Vincent Chin? From the early 1970s to the present, she has made numerous experimental films around issues of narrative and perception. Fisher's films were given a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1995, and have been shown at major museums and festivals in the USA and Europe. Her previous feature Bullets for Breakfast had a world premier at The Berlin International Film Festival (The Forum, ‘92); was screened at The London, Stockholm, Galway, Los Angeles, and Chicago International Festivals; and received the Best Experimental Film Award at the 1992 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her feature video documentary, Kalama Sutta: Seeing is Believing, premiered in The Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival, Feb. 2001. Her latest feature, Everywhere at Once, combines the photography of Peter Lindbergh, script by poet Kimiko Hahn, and musical score by composer Lois V. Vicrck into a magnificent audio-visual collage that honors the film career of actress Jeanne Moreau, the film's narrator.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Everywhere at Once
6:45 PM  |   Angelika Film Center, Houston TX