RIP IN PIECES AMERICA

Anonymous home made short-videos carefully edited into a feature.

« I was watching video on the Internet and I noticed that certain homemade clips were flagged for their content. As they were disappearing from free hosting sites, I started to save and edit them in a capsule format. Working in a gray zone about copyright, I nevertheless fulfill the authors’ will to contextualize their situation by grouping their videos together and more important diffuse / preserve their messages. » D.G.

« When this thing goes down_ and the crack-down happens_ all this information that is on the internet_ all these documentations_ not going to be there anymore, man_they are going to cut off the main frame_delete all this information_ that's it_you're not going to know anything. » RIP

Context: « We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is_a painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property,_precious liberties, and a way of l i f e . Few of our elected_representatives in Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The_federal United States is bankrupt. Our children will inherit this_unpayable debt, and the tyranny to enforce paying it. America has_become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial credit and_its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an_undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most_corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back your Country. » RIP

« I've never experienced this much emotional hysteria and conspiracy theory around an election! » RIP

Dominic Gagnon Biography: Inventor, director, installer and active performer on the international scene, Dominic Gagnon considers cinema as a technique for measuring the immeasurable or as a discipline of chaos. Since 1996, he has made public presentations of moving images, invent machines and concepts, performs sound works, built facilities and creates performances in various galleries, festivals and biennials around the world. To carry out his projects, Gagnon has conducted several researches about: the decline of economies (ISO, 2002), terror (Du Moteur à Explosion, 2000) violence and identity crisis among boys (The Making of a Cobra, 2004), the international adoption systems (Anchorage, 1998), information disorder and homelessness (High Speed, 2007), Sado-Masochism and fetishism in popular culture (Blockbuster History, 2005) and the family in the era of megaentertainment (Beluga Crash Blues, 1997).

Other films on 21. 05. 2009:

KosmosTheater

18:30 - 19:05 Cementerio Central

19:20 - 20:30 Todos nos hacemos ilusiones

19:20 - 20:30 You Scratch my Back, I'll Scratch Yours!

21:30 - 22:30 Bilal

Café 7*Stern:

19:00 - 20:00 Rip in Pieces America

20:15 - 21:35 Cuba as Time Goes By