Ray Pride

Art outside the gallery and work outside of boundaries: a program of short documentaries about disobedience with symbols in a symbolism-laden time. In "Public Discourse," Brad Downey and Quennell Jones examine the work of New York artists like Shepard Fairey, Ellen Harvey and Swoon, whose work hits the streets, making paintings of street signs, manipulating existing ads, postering and committing other forms of guerrilla art. Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos' "Suggested Photo Spots" covers a 7,000-mile drive in ten minutes, capturing an ironic and sometimes sarcastic range of "Suggested Photo Spots" as listed by the "Center for Land Use Interpretation." The unsigned "Malcolm X Street" describes the simultaneous actions of the city of Portland removing Malcolm X's name from a street and a covert group called Group X "re-naming" another downtown street overnight. The most eye-widening of the bunch, however, is 1999's "BIT Plane," from the "Bureau of Inverse Technology," in which a radio-controlled spy plane with a twenty-inch wingspan invades enemy territory: Silicon Valley. In 1997, BIT flew over "no-camera" zones of the campuses of major information-age corporations, bringing back forbidden aerial imagery of the topography of Oracle, Netscape, Apple, Lockheed, SGI, Netscape and Sun Microsystems. Form and function can be a mindfuck. Program 66m.

Programmed by Daria Greenwald for the Select Media Festival, "Flying in the No Fly Zone" plays 9 on Sunday at High School, 1550 North Milwaukee; 6:15 Monday at the Siskel Film Center.

(2003-11-19)

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