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POPaganda screening, Thurs 8/25 in NYC
Our friends at the Onion are doing a sneak preview screening of POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English at Anthology Film Archives next week. We'll be there and you should too. Ron English is an artist/billboard liberator whose work you might recognize from Supersize Me and Adbusters. The documentary was directed by fellow billboard bandit Pedro Carvajal. (8 pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St; 212-505-5181).
And if you're not in New York, fear not: the movie will be showing up in theaters elsewhere in September.
Posted by Carrie McLaren on 08/19/2005 | Permalink
Comments
You gonna sue that too, DC? Well, are ya?
Posted by: Charles | Aug 19, 2005 5:06:15 PM
This stuff is way too heavy-handed and too clankingly literal - does nothing for me. For some subverson that will actually make you notice and think, see Felipe Dulzaides:
www.doubletakebillboards.com
Felipe does "Double Take A Billboard Project," an ongoing public art project installed on eight billboards throughout San Francisco over the course of a year. Doubletake refers to both the act of seeing an image in double (the actual scene, and its enlarged representation on the billboard), and the surprise at seeing an everyday image take on monumental size and significance.
Posted by: Jim | Aug 19, 2005 11:52:05 PM
Also of note, Ron English and director Pedro Carvajal will be there for a post-screening Q & A.
Posted by: Joe Garden | Aug 21, 2005 10:19:53 PM
