Because I believe...
that "Medium Cool" is, was and always will be the most  
                                     important
film to come out of the Untied States of America, [ever!] 
I've created this webpage to back myself up as I begin 
insisting to friends who think they'll be making 
documentaries, news or fictions that:

You must watch this movie at least 1,000 times
before you get out there and work!

Yes, it's fine to believe that you can change the world,
but first you must be sure you're equipped to 
 see it!

 

Until this site has evolved some, the rest of this will be more or less a "page o' links." Here's a tiny bit of trivia for you,
[the line that follows is a jumpline for all things "Medium Cool."]

Did you know that Studs Terkel acted in this movie? Guess who else?

[move your cursor over it...]

Now Showing:
View a quicktime clip from Emily and 
Sarah Kunstler's movie "In The Name 
Of Security" where targetting of civilian 
infrastructure in Ramallah is discussed.

Pictures of Jenin and Nablus are just as indicting,
by the way. View one more quicktime movie about 
that, thanks to Sarah who along with her sister 
Emily documented enough to have you on the edge
of your seat for days. 

With this 1968 film, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler lucked out. While planning it, he decided to use the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago as a backdrop for part of his drama, and wound up with striking footage of some of the era's most memorable rioting. With not much narrative here; rather than paying attention to plot, Wexler allows the viewer to follow a TV cameraman played by Robert Forster on the job as well as off. Hence, the picture is more a collection of striking fragments than a cohesive whole. The scene clipped here is among the entertaining curiosities on hand: In it, an unknown group of musicians mime along with a track by the Mothers of Invention. How psychedelic.

[ ...ask the makers of "Slacker" and "Blair Witch" where they got their "brand new" ideas, eh??? -ed ]

  • And to show you that not much has changed in 30+ years, check out these clips of Marc Frucht being beaten nearly to death by DC police chief Charles Ramsey's goons at a permitted rally and march 12apr03.

    Additional footage: (.) (.)

    e t c e t e r a :
    
    
    

    Close down the soa
    We don't need it anyway
    North and south, the people say
    Close down the soa
    Close down the soa
    Or we will civilly disobey
    And you will have some hell to pay
    Close down the soa

    Typed in by /pap/ [prime anarchist productions]

    No HTML code was harmed in the creation of this website.This site was composed using Notepad, the way a page was meant to be. All text was entered using a Tandy Model 100 laptop, a nullmodemconnector, a 19.2 connection, and a ton of TLC. This page in its entirety copyleft 2000 by marco.

    ATI's Top 10 Google Pages:

  • 1 http://flag.blackened.net/ati/pulitzer.html
  • 2 http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/soa.html
  • 3 http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/chiapa.html
  • 4 http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/frucht.html
  • 5 http://bancs.lod.com/~ati/ati176.html
  • 6 http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/latuff/violence.html
  • 7 http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/roberta.html
  • 8 http://flag.blackened.net/ati/mediumcool.html
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  • 0 http://marcocapelli.iuma.com

  • Does anyone know if Wexler knows anything about Indymedia?

    Well, if you don't like this, then make your own page, eh?