Paper Tiger TV 30th Anniversary!
Release Date: 1/20/2012
Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger from Papertiger TV on Vimeo.
Celebrating 30 Years of Collective Media Art, Activism and Analysis!
Beginning with the exhibition "Its the 21st Century: Do you know where your Brains are?" at Fales NYU library gallery, PTTV will launch 4 months of events to celebrate its 30th year.
Exhibition: "Its the 21st Century: Do you know where your Brains are?"
February 3 – May 4, 2012
Fales Library Gallery, Bobst Library, 3rd floor New York University
70 Washington Square South, NY NY
Opening Night Panel Discussion: The Roaring Years of Paper Tiger - Tigers give summaries of their time in the collective
February 3, 6-7:30 pm – Reception will follow.
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Being the Media: Designing a New Rrradical Media
PRODUCERS CONFERENCE AND DESIGN CHALLENGE
Friday and Saturday, February 10 & 11, 2012
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New York City
Admission: Free
RSVP recommended 212 229 2436 or vlc@newschool.edu
WHAT IS RADICAL MEDIA? WHAT HAS IT BEEN IN THE PAST? WHAT WILL IT BE IN THE FUTURE?
In partnership with the
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Paper Tiger Television video collective (PTTV) is hosting a two-day conference to create a grassroots media prototype for the digital environment.
On February 10th and 11th, students, journalists, artists, media scholars and the general public will gather at The New School. Working in teams, participants will be challenged to find inventive ways to use digital platforms to compile information/ideas into an accessible format that builds on the ideals of non-hierarchical-participatory culture, critical analysis, activism and innovative aesthetics. We believe that combining new developments in design, video production, journalism, digital media platforms, media studies and traditional arts, opens up the potential for something truly revolutionary to emerge.
The new media landscape is rife with opportunities for innovation and collaboration. Data journalism, crowd sourcing, live streaming, wireless technology and social media are a few of the new ways people can create media together. How can we build upon the ideals of the Paper Tiger collective that combine activism, critical analysis, grassroots journalism and participatory aesthetics through a collaborative process? The Occupy Wall Street movement has called out for the need to challenge the fundamental organization of our society. It is the ideal time to develop a new radical media that builds upon the ideals of non- hierarchical, consensus-based, truly democratic structures.
Selected designs will be presented by Paper Tiger Television at
MoMA, as a special presentation during the annual Documentary Fortnight 2012: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media.
DAY ONE
Radical Media Then & Now: Keynote, Screening, and Panel Discussion
Keynote by Malkia Cyril, executive director of
Center for Media Justice
Friday, February 10, 2012, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
DAY TWO
Building the Future of Media Activism, Media Intensive and Design Challenge
Saturday, February 11, 2012, (National Inventors’ Day) 10:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Presented with
School of Media Studies at the New School.
Workshop facilitation in partnership with
People's Production House,
Deep Dish TV,
MAG-Net,
Manhattan Neighborhood Network and
Democracy Now!.
You may see a full conference description along with extensive resources
here or
download a pdf of conference description.
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Three Screenings at MOMA's Documentary Fortnight 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012 8:00-10:00 p.m.
-Presentation of Selected Radical Media Design Prototypes-
This screening will include selected prototypes from the two-day conference "Being the Media: Designing a New Rrradical Media" The design teams will discuss their projects and the challenges they faced.
Presented with: Infiltrating the Underground. USA. 2008. PTTV video collective. 20 min. excerpt.
Author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore looks at how corporations chip away at democracy and personal integrity by copying the styles and techniques of alternative culture.
Saturday, February 25, 2012 3:00 pm
-Reading the Newspaper and Reality Television-
Herb Schiller Reads the New York Times: 712 Pages of Waste, The Sunday Times. USA. 1981. PTTV video collective. 28 min.
Noted American media critic and scholar Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times in this precedent setting PTTV show. Schiller irreverently leafs through page after page of the paper, analyzing the physical heft and numerous advertisements in a deconstruction of it's wasteful excess.
Reality Unreeled: The Really Real Unreal Reality of Real Reality TV. 2010. PTTV video collective. 28 min.
Media critic and founder of Women In Media& News, Jennifer L. Pozner leads this exploration of the social, economic and cultural meaning of reality television through the analysis of shows such as Survivor. Her commentary expands upon the use of stereotypes and exploitation throughout the genre. The show includes an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder of the New York Reality TV School, and "Addicted to Beauty" advertising posters in the subway.
Street Art Take Over. USA. 2010. PTTV video collective. 8 min.
Teams of whitewashers and artists transform over 100 of NPA City Outdoor's 480 illegal billboards in Manhattan from street level advertising to art. The New York Street Art Takeover 2009, organized by Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign, challenged control over our visual landscape by bringing art to public space.
Saturday, February 25, 2012 and 6:00 pm
-Reading Sock Ads and Television News Coverage of War-
Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California. 1988. 28 min.
This playfully insightful examination of consumer culture in America looks at how and why a proliferation of products are developed and marketed in the American capitalist system. Judith Williamson, author of Decoding Advertisements, suggests that the freedom to choose multiple versions of body products may supplant other freedoms of choice.
TVs Gulf War: Bill Nichols Analyzes TV's Coverage of the Gulf War. 1991. 28 min.
Documentary film professor and media critic Bill Nichols deconstructs the US media's coverage of the first Gulf War, and exposes how the TV news constructs information. Many of the news channels produced their own reality, blurring the line between fact and fiction. Expressing fear and urgency, television news coverage compressed the complexities of the issues of war into easily consumed information.
Thai Worker Collective TV Ad. 2010. 1:46 min.
Labor organizers and worker collectives in Bangkok asked Paper Tiger Television to make a commercial to promote the sales of their sweat free products made in worker-owned production facilities with dignified labor practices.
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Support our 30th Anniversary Celebration:
Deep Dish TV's South Asia Video Collection
Release Date: 1/19/2012
There have been several youth-led, popular uprisings in the Middle East. Corporate media, like the U.S. Government, have embraced the revolutions where they have supported U.S. capitalist interests, but have shunned the factions that threaten (what they believe to be) our natural right to rule the Middle East and control its resources. Although Libya, Egypt and Tunisia have jettisoned their Western-backed dictators, the struggle for self-determination is nothing new. In Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Kashmir, people continue to protest colonial domination and the client governments that allow it. And, yet, they are conspicuously absent from the discourse. South Asia has long been one of the most brutally exploited areas on the planet. Today, as many peoples in South American and Africa continue to do, South Asians are fighting for their rights in a post-colonial world. In this light, Deep Dish TV would like to unveil a collection of our coverage of South Asia.
Aggression & Self-Determination: Massacre in East Timor (1992) (28 mins)
In 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor, using arms supplied by the United States. Nearly one-third of the Timorese population has since died. This activist document offers eyewitness accounts and analysis of how to end the occupation.
Arundhati Roy: Two Talks on Democracy With Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, David Barsamian, and Amy Goodman (2010) (192 mins)
In the first program, filmed in San Francisco in March 2010, Arundhati Roy discusses the largest military occupation in the world: the disputed Kashmir Valley, a formerly sovereign state currently occupied by India and Pakistan. Journalist David Barsamian interviews Roy on the massive human rights abuses committed by the world's largest "democracy."
In the second program, at MIT, Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy discuss the economic crisis and the future of democracy. As corporations exert more and more influence over an increasingly less democratic state, what does the future of America, India, and other "democracies" begin to look like? Here are some excerpts from the full program:
Faiz Ahmed Faiz- Anthems of Resistance
Deep Dish TV's Panel at the 2011 Left Forum (2011) (105 mins)
In March of 2011 at the annual Left Forum in New York City, Deep Dish TV hosted a panel discussion to celebrate the centenary (1911-1984) of one of Pakistan's greatest Urdu poets and revolutionary artists, Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Fluent in Arabic and English, he was a long time Sufi and Marxist, newspaper editor, founder in 1936 of the All-India Progressive Writers' Movement, and at times, a political prisoner. He inspired two generations of young activists from South Asia to Egypt to Lebanon. He was also, awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962 and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature shortly before his death in 1984.
David Barsamian Interviews (2011) (288 mins)
While the vast majority of U.S. media foreign affairs sections have focused on covering the Middle East, David Barsamian of Alternative Radio has been covering key issues in South Asia for many years. He has interviewed scores of academic, literary, journalistic and legal authorities on the region. Here, he interviews author Arundhati Roy and independent Kashmiri journalist Parvaiz Bukhari on Pakistan, the Kashmir region, and the Pakistani military. He also talks to Muhammad Junaid, a student living in the Kashmir region, about the history of the dispute over the area, post-colonial struggles of Kashmiri Muslims, and the role poets play in revolutions. Barsamian also interviews Harsh Dobhal, Human Rights Law Network, and editor of the human rights-centric bi-monthly magazine, Combat Law.
Arundhati Roy Part 1:
Arundhati Roy Part 2:
Parvaiz Bukhari Part 1:
Parvaiz Bukhari Part 2:
Here's part one of eight from the Junaid interview (you can find the rest on our blip.tv page):
Harsh Dobhal:
David Barsamian on Kashmir, Pt 1 (you can find the rest on our blip.tv page):
Not only will this collection shed some light on an under-reported region, it's a discount. Purchasers will receive over 10 hours of programming for the cost of about three! Even if you don't plan to purchase the program, please check out some of the videos on this page - you never know what you might learn!
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Release Date: 5/26/2011
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The Deep Dish TV News Items
The purpose of this section of our website is to link current news stories to relevant videos in the Deep Dish TV archives – over 300 programs that we've produced or distributed during the past 23 years. These programs provide useful background and important perspective on contemporary events.
May 2011
IMF: Raping the World - May 18, 2011
Death Threats Continue Against Community Radio in Radio in El Salvador! - May 13, 2011
Juliano Mer Khamis Memoria l - May 2, 2011
Leonard Irving Weinglass - Attorney and Counselor At Law (1933 - 2011 - April 29, 2011
What's the Fracking Problem? - April 25, 2011
What Hope For The Workers? - April 21, 2011
Top Legal Scholars Denouce the Torture of Bradley Manning - April 18, 2011
Horrific Tragedy in West Bank - Juliano Mer Khamis Assassinated - April 4, 2011
Obama Comes to Harlem - April 1, 2011
- Conflict: The Mavi Mamara and the Middle East - March 28, 2011
Remebering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - March 25, 2011
Leonard Irving Weinglass - Attorney and Counselor At Law (1933 - 2011 - April 29, 2011
Independent Media, Technology and Self-Determination Struggles in Nigeria - March 25, 2011
The Torture of Bradley Manning - March 23, 2011
Deep Dish TV at The Left Forum - March 17, 2011
Is It Worth The Risk - Japan and the Nuclear Future - March 18, 2011
Aristide to Return to Haiti on Thursday - March 17, 2011
Indymedia Africa Convergence - March 12, 2011
Modern Day McCarthy Hold Court - March 12, 2011
Wisconsin - Is This What Democracy Looks Like? - March 11, 2011
Fight for Women's Liberation Far From Over On The 100th International Women's Day - March 10, 2011
Footage from the First Indymedia Africa Convergence Report Back - March 8, 2011
From Egypt to Wisconsin - February 20, 2011
January 2010 News Items
Everyday Moments
In the midst of all the sad and bad news that draws the focus of our cameras, it is refreshing to look at the everyday moments that make up the fabric of our lives Carlos Pareja short video is about two minutes long and a patchwork of small moments i captured in and around Brooklyn, New York with his point & shoot in movie mod
The Cairo Declaration
New Year's Eve Candlight Vigil in Egypt's Tahrir Square
The Gaza Freedom March has come to an end. 1400 delegates from 43 countries traveled to Cairo Egypt in order to enter Gaza by the Rafah border crossing controlled by Egypt. Despite months of negotiating with the Egyptian Government and responding to all of its requests, as the Gaza Freedom Marchers were on their way to Cairo from around the world, the government announced that the border with Gaza was closed and no marchers would be allowed to enter Gaza. As the delegates gathered in Gaza, the Egyptian Government and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were building an "underground wall", metal plates driven 50 meters into the ground, to block the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt which are the main source of food, medicine and other supplies for the people of Gaza. The delegates of the Gaza Freedom March spent the week from December 27th to January 2nd attempting to persuade the government to allow them entry via Rafah. Every effort to protest and create public opinion was met with police blockade and force. Finally the government it would allow 100 people could enter. The offer was rejected as an effort to divide and vilify the delegation.
Haiti Community Radio Earthquake Emergency
Community Radio Stations in Haiti destroyed by Earthquake
U.S. Military Occupation of Haiti in Guise of Aid
As Haitians desperately await food and water, medical aid and help digging out from under the devastating destruction of the earthquake, the U.S. has put thousands of heavily armed soldiers on the ground, taken over the airport and turned back flights from other countries bringing in aid. "We don't need soldiers and guns" said a former Haitian Defense Minister.
Video Reports from Haiti
Deep Dish TV's blog Waves of Change features recent short videos by Ciné Institue from the town of Jacmel in the Southeast area of Haiti, not far from Port au Prince.
Stay up-to-date on Haiti with the Waves of Change Blog
The Waves of Change Blog is a terrific source of ongoing news about the crisis in Haiti, and the efforts of community activists to bring hope to this desperate station.
December 2009 News Items:
Egyptian Security Forces Detain Gaza Freedom Marchers in el-Arish and shut down Gaza Memorial in Cairo
Israel-Egypt-US tighten stranglehold on Palestinians in Gaza. Egypt refuses to allow medical supplies, food and International delegations from 46 countries to enter Gaza - the world's largest concentration camp
Egypt continues effort to block Palestinians in Gaza
Egyptian Government Tries to Block All Support For Palestinians in Gaza
Close to 1400 delegates to the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), people from 46 countries have arrived in Cairo intending to travel by bus to the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah to enter Gaza and join the Gaza Freedom March scheduled for January 31st. The March has been planned for four months and representatives of the GFM have been meeting with Egyptian officials for months to insure smooth passage. At the last minute Egypt refused permission to enter Gaza, forced the bus company that was to transport the participants, forbade them to meet in public in Cairo and denied access to a planned memorial on the Nile River. We just received the following from Cairo.
Gaza Freedom Marchers Reject Egyptian Offer to Let Just 100 Enter Gaza
After three days of vigils and demonstrations in downtown Cairo, Suzanne Mubarak’s offer to allow just 100 of 1,300 delegates to enter Gaza was rejected by the Gaza Freedom March Coordinating Committee as well as many of the larger contingents – including those from France, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, Sweden and New York State (U.S.).
Gaza Freedom Marchers Attacked by Egyptian Police
Participants of the Gaza Freedom March describe their efforts of the Egyptian government to prevent their expression of solidarity with the people of Gaza
Aid Convoy for Gaza blocked by Egyptian Government, Waits in Jordan
'Fighting to break the Gaza siege'
85 year old Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein Begins Hunger Strike to Open Gaza Borders
Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist, announced that she will begin a hunger strike today as a response to the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the Gaza Freedom March participants into Gaza.
Dennis Brutus, South African poet, freedom fighter 1924-1985
The memory of Dennis Brutus will remain everywhere there is struggle against injustice. Uniquely courageous, consistent and principled, Brutus bridged the global and local, politics and culture, class and race, the old and the young, the red and green. He was an emblem of solidarity with all those peoples oppressed and environments wrecked by the power of capital and state elites
Gaza Freedom March
Over 1000 people from the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia plan to join tens of thousands of Palestinians on historic Dec. 31st, 2009 March in Gaza
Rich Countries' Secret Deal on Global Warming
The Copenhagen climate change summit may be in peril as exposed document reveals scripted agreement between developed nations.
10 Years Later-The Impact of Shutting Down The WTO in Seattle
Reflections on the 'power of the people'
The Murder of Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was the 21 year old, brilliant revolutionary Chairman of the Black Panther Party of Illinois. On December 4th, 1969 in the pre-dawn hours, Chicago Police raided the apartment where Hampton, his fiancee and other Party members were sleeping. Investigations proved that the FBI planned and orchestrated the raid,
November 2009 News Items:
Howard Zinn's "The People Speak" on the History Channel
December 13, 2009
8 PM Eastern and Pacific
7 PM Central
Produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn. Performances by: Brolin, Damon, Rosario Dawson, Bob Dylan, Michael Ealy, Lupe Fiasco, Morgan Freeman, Jasmine Guy, John Legend, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, Sandra Oh, Viggo Mortensen, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei, Kerry Washington, and many others.
Digital Oral History From Durban South Africa
An Israeli Mother's Solidarity with Palestinian Women
Thanks-giving or Thanks-taking
Cal Student Occupation vs Tuition Hikes, Layoffs: Spark For a New Movment.
Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart's Appeal Denied
Health Care Bill: Tragedy or Farce?
What You Didn't Know About the War
Friday November 20th! Great Deep Dish Screening!
Deep Dish TV Now on Facebook and Twitter!
October 2009 News Items:
Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Denying Water to Palestinians
Argentina Democratizes Media Law
Deep Dish TV Announces Release of DIY Media Series!
Iraq Government Closes Baghdad University
War in the Cities - G-20 in Pittsburgh
Women of Afghanistan Speak Out
Marek Edelman - Hero of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dies
July 2009 News Items:
A Report From Gaza
I learned that there is no cease fire in Gaza. Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza and shooting its farmers and fishermen. - Felice Gelman, member of the Code Pink delegation to Gaza, May-June, 2009
Pakistan & Afghanistan: Battle Ground of Empire
An interview with David Barsamian, author and founder of Alternative Radio. Barsamian discusses the Taliban and the expansion of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to Pakistan in the context of Pashtun nationalism.
A Summer Not to Forget Wins Jury Award at Sole Luna Festival in Palermo Italy
Carol Mansour's film is part of Deep Dish TV series Nothing Is Safe - Israels 2006 War on Lebanon.
Israeli Soldiers Testify to War Crimes in Gaza Invasion
You feel like an infantile little kid with a magnifying glass looking at ants, burning them." Fifty-four testimonies of Israeli combat soldiers who participated in Operation Cast Lead reveal gaps between the reports given by the army following January’s events; the needless destruction of houses; firing phosphorous in populated areas and an atmosphere that encouraged shooting anywhere.
Honduras:Military Coup and the Fight for Land and Liberty
"A more likely motive for the coup lies in the Honduran oligarchy's fear of what would happen if the people got a chance to write their own Constitution."David Wilson, Monthly Review
Laughing all the Way to the Bank
The IMF was used to force neoliberalism - that poisonous cocktail of financial deregulation, free markets, privatisation and the rolling back of the state – on developing countries. IMF policies have been, despite the heartache, the wrecked lives, the savaging of countries' agriculture, education and institutions, granted legitimacy during this crisis.
The Women of Afghanistan
Part 5 of Brave New Films' Rethink Afghanistan exposes the reality of life for women in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion.
This is Where We Take Our Stand
The Winter Soldier Project: New Online Film Series Documents GI Resistance
YES MEN Withdraw Their Film From Jerusalem Film Festival
Whatever words are applied to such actions, our film mustn't help lend an aura of normalcy to a state that makes these decisions. For us, that's the bottom line.
June 2009 New Items
For The Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq
Documents the organizing efforts that put the United States on trial for its illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and the atrocities that have been committed in the name of "liberation."
US Colonel Advocates US 'Military Attacks' on 'Partisan Media'
Calls the independent media "the killers without guns"
May 2009 News Items
City of West Hollywood CA Takes Anti-Torture Stand
"If any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring such exemplary and severe punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it would not be disproportionate to his guilt at such a time and in such a cause, for by such conduct they bring upon us shame, disgrace, and ruin to themselves and to our country."- George Washington