http://www.engagemedia.org SEDITIOUS INTENT is a compilation of films inspired by Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Bill - some sad, some funny, some downright shocking. Dissent is an essential part of democracy. But under the Anti-Terrorism legislation, the right to oppose or challenge the State is significantly compromised. The Seditious Intent Short Film project was initiated in late October 2005. A call out was sent to filmmakers to produce a short work that was inspired by the anti-terror laws. The following 17 short films were selected from the submissions. For details about the background of the project, please visit http://spinach7.com/si/background.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- daily 1 2006-04-17T05:21:27Z http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/fibber_phil.mov/view Highlights the mis-quoting by the Australia’s Attorney General, Philip Ruddock of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 3, particularly drawing attention to his dropping of a vital word. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent featured 2007-09-09T23:13:58Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/sedition_is_bad_for_you.mov/view Set in the future, a rebel on a soap box questions the culture of Canberra’s Parliament House and its inhabitants. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-09T23:15:04Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/the_last_sentence.mov/view Set in Australia of the future in which the quest for national security has blown into full-scale censorship. A young man tests his rights. Drama EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-09T23:18:04Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/untitled_sedition_ad.mov/view Capital needs army boots to free float and roam the most unknown corners of the globe. Expansion is, first and foremost, violation. To market is to mark enemies and eliminate them. Ours are the times of Capital marketing Democracy. In doing so, while it expands its territories overseas through naked occupation, it needs to eliminate dissent within its own borders. Fascism is catchy. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-09T23:27:09Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/sleepwalking_into_history.mov/view Vox pops with high profile comedians, Wendy Harmer, Max Gillies, Will Anderson and The Chaser’s, Julian Morrow and Co, journalist, David Marr and film critic, Margaret Pomeranz, add their voices to the alarm felt in the arts community to the anti-terror laws particularly those dealing with sedition. Dynamically intercut with rehearsals of The Three Amigos by the Wharf Revue – Jonathan Biggins, Genevieve Lemon, Drew Forsythe, and Phil Scott - the documentary highlights the role of satire in a democratic society. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-09T23:28:50Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/be_aware_and_alarmed.mov/view John Howard is granted 3 wishes. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-09T23:29:15Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/urban_warfare.mov/view The premise of the film is that peace starts at home, or conversely that terror starts at home and uses humour to highlight the theme. This film is from SEDITIOUS INTENT, a compilation of films inspired by Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Bill - some sad, some funny, some downright shocking. Dissent is an essential part of democracy. But under the Anti-Terrorism legislation, the right to oppose or challenge the State is significantly compromised. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent featured Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:21:34Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/elizabeth_the_last.mov/view This is a tribute to the Denis Kevans, Australia's Poet Lorikeet, who died last September. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:21:17Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/new_rules_of_engagementa80.mov/view A silent piece of condemnation. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:26:41Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/the_bridge.mov/view On the Harbour Bridge two couples - one of Anglo descent and the other Arabic - walk with their children. As they draw nearer each other, the parents are wary, but the children find common ground. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:26:20Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/lets_play.mov/view They are playing….playing with us as kids play with their toys. And they want us not to speak about it. In this short film I have made toys speak. A duck making the logo of McDonalds is looking at all this from above, laughing and enjoying it, the duck actually represents the multinationals and their role. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:26:36Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/intercepted.mov/view A terrorist video fo a different kind: suburban white supremacist stock-broker threatens that the government’s new terror laws are not extreme enough…. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:26:33Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/impresario_of_rubbisheda73.mov/view (If the world trade centre collapsed in a forest would anybody hear it?) This film is a matrix of the notions of body and place as sites for collective experience and the things from which we cannot retreat. In the title of this piece I am the impresario, however, it could also be the violence of our modern age: Osama bin Laden; American foreign policy; the Rockefellers, who instigated the creation of the WTC. In one scenario the world trade centres collapses, one after the other in an empty field. In another scenario September 11 is performed through mime. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:04:58Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/weapons_of_mass_hysteria.mov/view A subversive underground lair and a media bombardment of fear and terrorism bring New Horizons in Violence to the extremely seditious band of the same name. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:04:55Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/SeditiousIntent/videos/lookout_oz.mov/view Inspired by the Lets Lookout for Australian handbook, this short is intended to be on the lighter side of terror. Made by TAFE students in 2003. EngageMedia SeditiousIntent Seditious Intent 2007-09-10T07:04:38Z Video video/quicktime