The Yes Men Fix The World
Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno / USA / 2009 / 91 min
VO: Engligh
Subtitles: Romanian
Festivalsand awards:
2009 – Sundance Film Festival, Utah, US
2009 – Hot Docs Toronto, Canada
2009 – Seattle Film Festival, US
2009 – Berlin International Film Festival 2009, Audience Award, Germany
2009 – Planet Doc Film Festival, Audience Award, Warsaw, Poland
Company production: Common Decency
An Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are left-wing activists impersonating spokespersons for huge corporations, with the purpose of showing the world that “there is a different way”. They participate into conferences, with satirical speeches and offering ridiculous solutions for the thorny issue of climate change, as representatives of Exxon and Haliburton. They even appear on the BBC where, in name of Dow Chemical, they take responsibility for the industrial disaster in Bhopal and they print an edition of the New York Times announcing the end of the War in Iraq. Apart from playing pranks,the two also attack the cult of the free market, succesfuly mantained by companies end governmental agencies.dy Bichlbaum si Mike Bonanno sunt activisti de stanga si joaca rolul unor purtatori de cuvant a unor companii uriase, cu scopul de a arata lumii ca “se poate si altfel”. Cei doi participa la diferite conferinte cu discursuri satirice care frizeaza absurdul si ofera solutii ridicole pentru problematicele schimbari climatice, ca reprezentanti ai Exxon si Halliburton. Apar chiar la BBC unde, in numele companiei Dow Chemical, isi asuma responsabilitatea pentru dezastrul industrial de la Bhopal si tiparesc o editie New York Times in care anunta sfarsitul razboiului din Irak. Pe langa farse, cei doi ataca si cultul pietei libere intretinut cu succes de companii si de agentii guvernamentale.
Screening at: Cinema Elvira Popescu, Sunday March 21, 17:00; Monday March22, 21:00
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