General

Weapons of Mass Deception

Monday, 20 December 2004
6:00 PM - 10:30 PM

"A comprehensive and devastating critique of the TV news networks' complacency and complicity in the war on Iraq... brilliantly argued and scrupulously documented...a must see" -- Chicago Reader.

Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Denver, Colorado and Austin, Texas film festivals. [Directed by Danny Schechter "The News Dissector"]

The screening is presented by Michael Hammerschlag, who has written commentaries + articles for Seattle Times, Providence Journal, Honolulu Advertiser, Columbia Journalism Review, Media Channel, and Capital Times. He will present a 15 minute introduction before the film and also take questions after.

This will immediately be followed by Jeff Knoch's Prog-O-Riff-ic film + video night.

8pm 70s Psych-Prog Film Night with your charming host Jeff Knoch

An evening of rare, archival footage (compiled from innumerable sources) of the finest English and German prog-rockers of bygone days: when cleverness, thinness, and musical direction governed by something other than adolescent testosterone were cool. Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, and Caravan spar with teutonic titans: Can, Kraftwerk (in this case, more Neu than Kraftwerk), and Amon Duul II. Plus a handful of others. The sheer irrefutable mind-blowing potential of the material and consummately endearing personality of one Robert Wyatt more than makes up for the very rare, occasional, seldom discernable, yet arguably present, only slight compromised video quality (at moments).

Location:
AS220, Providence, Rhode Island

Cost: free

URL: http://www.wmdthefilm.com hammernews.com/ www.as220.org www.urdog.com