END:CIV; kültürümüzün sistematik şiddete ve çevresel sömürüye olan bağımlılığını inceliyor ve sonuçta zehirlenen tabiatı ve savaş bunalımındaki ulusları derinlemesine araştırıyor. Derrick Jensen’in Endgame (Oyun Sonu) adlı kitabına dayanan END:CIV izleyiciye şu soruyu soruyor: “Yaşadığınız topraklar, ormanları kesen, suyu ve havayı kirleten ve besin kaynaklarınızı zehirleyen yaratıklar tarafından işgal edilseydi, direnir miydiniz?”… Uygarlıkların çökmelerinin altında yatan nedenleri genellikle kaynakların aşırı kullanımına dayanır. Bunu yazarken, dünya ekonomik kaos, petrolün zirvesi, iklim değişikliği, çevresel yıkım ve politik karışıklıkla sendeliyor. Hergün, manşetler skandal hikayelerini ve kamu güvensizliğini temcit pilavı gibi ısıtıp ısıtıp önümüze koyuyor. Şu anki küresel sistemin sonuna dair öfkeli taleplerde bulunmamız gerekmiyor – çünkü çok yakında çökecek gibi görünüyor. Ancak, en çok hasar görmüş yerlerde bile cesaret, merhamet ve özgecilik eylemleri kaynıyor. Savaş ve baskının ağır etkilerine maruz kalmış insanların dirençliliğini ve ilerleyen krizle yüzleşmek için öne atılanların kahramanlıklarını belgeleyerek, END:CIV bu herşeyi tüketen çılgınlığın dışında makul bir geleceğe ışık tutar. Jensen’in anlatımı ile desteklenmiş film bizleri bu toprakları gerçekten seviyorsak eyleme geçmeye çağırıyor. Film, küresel ekonomik sistemin çözümlemesini yapmak için müziği, arşivsel metrajı, hareketli grafikleri, animasyonu, güldürüyü ve hicvi de kullanarak enerjik bir tempoda ilerliyor. END:CIV, Jensen’in şiirsel ve sezgisel yaklaşımıyla örtüşen birinci elden fedakarlık ve kahramanlık hikayelerini dikkatle ve duygusal olarak heyecanla yansıtıyor. Taşrada çekilmiş ekran görüntüleri korkunç ama olağan yıkımın traşlama kanıtının yanısıra kesici doğal güzelliğin perde arkasını gözler önüne seriyor.
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen’s narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen’s poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
“A fierce critique of systematic violence and industrial civilization, End:Civ is not intended for garden-variety environmentalists. If you are anywhere below, say, an 8 on that sliding scale of pissed off, then this film is going to scare you — which means you should watch it.” -Eugene Weekly
.”A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen’s thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious.”
James Becket
-Director of The Best Revenge
“Franklin Lopez is a fantastically talented filmmaker, who has created a powerful and important film about the most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the planet.”
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
“By far the most routinely praised contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked sense of humor that is often sorely lacking among alter-globalization activists. López’s work engages in constructing a new vision where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again.”
-Chris Robé, Pop Matters
“Franklin Lopez’ END:CIV is a labour of love, a stunning 75 minutes film…”
John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive
“It brought me to tears…” “I recommend it to people”
-Alex Smith, Host of Radio Ecoshock
“Franklin Lopez’s END:CIV project is awesome.”
-Shannon Walsh, Director of H2Oil
“Both the quantity and the quality of this movement’s filmmaking is increasing. This is the big battlefield on which we fight right now.”
-Michael Rupert, CollapseNet.com
Franklin López will be touring with END:CIV in 2011.
The END:CIV DVD by PM Press can be ordered now.
If you wish to book a screening in your town or want to order a DVD, simply click on the links below.
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen’s narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen’s poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
“A fierce critique of systematic violence and industrial civilization, End:Civ is not intended for garden-variety environmentalists. If you are anywhere below, say, an 8 on that sliding scale of pissed off, then this film is going to scare you — which means you should watch it.” -Eugene Weekly
.”A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen’s thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious.”
James Becket
-Director of The Best Revenge
“Franklin Lopez is a fantastically talented filmmaker, who has created a powerful and important film about the most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the planet.”
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
“By far the most routinely praised contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked sense of humor that is often sorely lacking among alter-globalization activists. López’s work engages in constructing a new vision where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again.”
-Chris Robé, Pop Matters
“Franklin Lopez’ END:CIV is a labour of love, a stunning 75 minutes film…”
John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive
“It brought me to tears…” “I recommend it to people”
-Alex Smith, Host of Radio Ecoshock
“Franklin Lopez’s END:CIV project is awesome.”
-Shannon Walsh, Director of H2Oil
“Both the quantity and the quality of this movement’s filmmaking is increasing. This is the big battlefield on which we fight right now.”
-Michael Rupert, CollapseNet.com
Franklin López will be touring with END:CIV in 2011.
The END:CIV DVD by PM Press can be ordered now.
If you wish to book a screening in your town or want to order a DVD, simply click on the links below.
END :CIV examine notre culture de dépendance à la violence systémique et à l’exploitation environnementale et enquête sur l’épidémie résultant des sites contaminés et des nations en état de choc. Basé en partie sur Endgame, le livre au succès retentissant écrit par Derrick Jensen, END :CIV questionne : «Si ton pays se faisait envahir par des extraterrestres qui coupent des forêts, qui empoisonnent l’eau et l’air et contaminent les réserves de nourriture, résisterais-tu?»
Les vraies causes de l’effondrement de la civilisation sont habituellement dues à la surutilisation des ressources. Pendant que ces mots sont écrits, le monde est en train d’agoniser sous le chaos économique, le pic pétrolier, le changement climatique, la dégradation de l’environnement et l’agitation politique. Tous les jours, les manchettes remanient les histoires de scandales et de trahison de la confiance du peuple. Nous n’avons pas à faire des demandes indignées pour la fin de ce système mondial actuel : il semble déjà se désagréger.
Par contre, des actes de courage, de compassion et d’altruisme abondent, même dans les endroits les plus affectés. En documentant d’une part, la résistance de ceux et celles qui sont le plus touché-e-s par la guerre et la répression, et d’autre part, l’héroïsme de ceux et celles qui vont de l’avant pour confronter la crise la tête haute, END :CIV offre une avenue pour sortir de cette folie dévorante et aller vers un avenir plus sain.
Soutenu par la narration de Jensen, le film nous appelle à agir comme si nous aimions vraiment cette terre. Le film offre un rythme soutenu en utilisant de la musique, des images d’archives, des courts-métrages, de l’animation, de la comédie et des satires pour déconstruire le système économique mondial, même s’il implose autour de nous. END :CIV illustre des histoires à la première personne, leurs sacrifices et leur héroïsme, des images intenses et chargées émotionnellement qui s’accordent harmonieusement à l’approche poétique et intuitive de Jensen. Des scènes tournées dans l’arrière-pays fournissent des intermèdes d’une beauté naturelle à couper le souffle au côté des évidences prononcées de destruction horrible, mais commune.
END :CIV présente des entrevues avec Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan et plus encore.
«Un film réalisé avec brio par Franklin López qui fait plus de justice avec la thèse de Derrick Jensen que la civilisation industrielle qui est en train de détruire la vie sur la planète. Employant toutes les techniques audiovisuelles contemporaines, López récolte les sons et les images de notre monde en démence pour montrer inexorablement le viol de la pensée et de la terre.»
James Becket – Directeur de The Best Revenge
« Franklin Lopez est un cinéaste merveilleusement talentueux qui a créé un film puissant et important à propos du sujet le plus important de tous les temps : comment arrêter cette culture tuant la planète.»
Derrick Jensen, auteur de Endgame
«De loin, l’activiste contemporain travaillant dans les médias le plus régulièrement couvert d’éloges est Franklin López. Non seulement ses émissions et ses films possèdent un look et une atmosphère distinctifs, mais ils contiennent aussi un excellent sens de l’humour qui est souvent grandement manquant parmi les activistes alter mondialistes. Le travail de López est engagé à construire de nouvelles visions où la culture populaire sert les intérêts des pauvres et des dépossédés, où l’humour est relancé entre activistes et où, l’éthique du Fais-le-Toi-Même du punk et du hip-hop permet à ceux et celles avec du talent et de la jugeote d’être le média, encore une fois.»
- Chris Robé, Pop Matters
« Le film END : CIV de Franklin Lopez est un travail fait avec amour, un film stupéfiant de 75 minutes.»
- John Zerzan, auteur de Future Primitive
«Ça m’a mis les larmes aux yeux.» «Je le recommande aux gens.»
- Alex Smith, hôte de Radio Ecoshock
«Le projet END:CIV de Franklin Lopez est fantastique.»
- Shannon Walsh, réalisatrice de H2Oil
«La quantité et qualité de la réalisation de ce type de film est un mouvement en croissance. C’est le grand champ de bataille sur lequel nous nous battons en ce moment.»
- Michael Rupert, de CollapseNet.com
Franklin López va être en tournée avec END :CIV en 2011. Le DVD de END :CIV par PM Press peut être commandé maintenant.
Upcoming Shows:
END:CIV with Director Franklin López
Date
City
Venue
Country
Tour: END:CIV TOUR
05/19/12
END:CIV with Director Franklin López in
Copenhagen
Если бы Вашу родную землю захватили инопланетяне, которые бы уничтожали леса и отравляли запасы пищи, Вы бы сопротивлялись? Если бы существа из космоса сделали воду настолько ядовитой, что Вы бы даже думать не могли о том, чтобы ее пить, Вы бы постарались их остановить? Если бы монстры распыляли токсичные химикаты, которые бы вызывали рак у людей, которых Вы любите, Вы бы боролись с ними?
Это не пустые вопросы. Всё это происходит сейчас, за исключением того, что нет пришельцев. Культура, воспитывавшая нас с самого рождения – убийца.
END:CIV иллюстрирует жестокость цивилизации, зависимой от систематического насилия и разрушения окружающей среды, и героизм всех тех, кто противостоит этому лицом к лицу. Быстрая графика, интервью, военные съемки и сатира высмеивают излишества глобальной экономической системы, даже в то время, как она рушится вокруг нас.
Основанный на бестселлере “Эндшпиль” (Endgame) Деррека Дженсена (Derrick Jensen), END:CIV начинается с утверждения жестокой реальности о том, что все цивилизации, в конце концов, приходят к концу. Древние Майя, династии Китая и могущественная Римская Империя, такие продолжительные по своему существованию и могучие, неизбежно заканчивались разрушением. Западная Цивилизация ничем не отличается от них. Она погибает, но недостаточно быстро.
Дженсен спрашивает: “Если цивилизация продержится еще следующие сто или двести лет, скажут ли потом люди о нас: “Почему они её не уничтожили?” Будут ли они также злы на нас, как я зол на тех, кто жил до меня и ничего не предпринимал? Я очень отчётливо могу слышать голоса тех, кто будет жить после нас, восклицая: “Если бы они уничтожили её, в нашей почве по-прежнему бы жили земляные черви, чтобы её питать. У нас бы до сих пор были мамонтовые леса и дубы в Калифорнии. У нас бы по-прежнему жили лягушки. И другие амфибии. Я голодаю, потому что в реке больше не водится лосось, и вы позволили истребить всего лосося, чтобы у богатых людей было дешёвое электричество для алюминиевых плавильных печей. Будьте прокляты. Будьте все вы прокляты.”
В число интервью, использованных в фильме, входят интервью с Капитаном Paul Watson из Sea Shepherd Society и писателями James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency), Gord Hill (500 Years of Indigenous Resistance), Waziyatawin (For Indigenous Eyes Only), Lierre Keith (The Vegetarian Myth) и Stephanie McMillan (Minimum Security). Лопез берёт интервью у активистов-аборигенов племени Qwatsinas (Nuxalk Nation) и Rod Coronado (Pascua Yaqui); активистов-экологов Steven Best, Zoe Blunt, Dru Oja Jay, Macdonald Stainsby и многих других.
О режисере Франклине Лопезе
Лопез, родившийся в Сан Хуан, Пуерто-рико, является ведущим новостного политического шоу под названием “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine”. В 2005 году, его видео-ремикс под названием “George Bush Don’t Like Black People”, выпущенный после урагана Катарина, достиг миллиона просмотров и получил одобрение в редакциях New York Times и Washington Post. Журнал Wired указал его проект subMedia.TV в числе списка топ-10 онлайн-видео сайтов, в том же году Лопез начал работать с Эми Гудман (Amy Goodman) над передачей Democracy Now!
“Франклин Лопез фантастически талантливый режисер, который снял очень важный фильм об одной из самых важных тем на данный момент. О том, как остановить эту культуру, пока она не уничтожила всю нашу планету. – Деррек Дженсен (Derrick Jensen)
КОНЕЦЦИВИЛИЗАЦИИ.БУДУЩЕЕЗАВИСИТОТНЕГО.
Upcoming Shows:
END:CIV with Director Franklin López
Date
City
Venue
Country
Tour: END:CIV TOUR
05/19/12
END:CIV with Director Franklin López in
Copenhagen
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen’s narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen’s poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
“A fierce critique of systematic violence and industrial civilization, End:Civ is not intended for garden-variety environmentalists. If you are anywhere below, say, an 8 on that sliding scale of pissed off, then this film is going to scare you — which means you should watch it.” -Eugene Weekly
.”A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen’s thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious.”
James Becket
-Director of The Best Revenge
“Franklin Lopez is a fantastically talented filmmaker, who has created a powerful and important film about the most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the planet.”
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
“By far the most routinely praised contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked sense of humor that is often sorely lacking among alter-globalization activists. López’s work engages in constructing a new vision where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again.”
-Chris Robé, Pop Matters
“Franklin Lopez’ END:CIV is a labour of love, a stunning 75 minutes film…”
John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive
“It brought me to tears…” “I recommend it to people”
-Alex Smith, Host of Radio Ecoshock
“Franklin Lopez’s END:CIV project is awesome.”
-Shannon Walsh, Director of H2Oil
“Both the quantity and the quality of this movement’s filmmaking is increasing. This is the big battlefield on which we fight right now.”
-Michael Rupert, CollapseNet.com
Franklin López will be touring with END:CIV in 2011.
The END:CIV DVD by PM Press can be ordered now.
If you wish to book a screening in your town or want to order a DVD, simply click on the links below.
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen’s narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen’s poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
“A fierce critique of systematic violence and industrial civilization, End:Civ is not intended for garden-variety environmentalists. If you are anywhere below, say, an 8 on that sliding scale of pissed off, then this film is going to scare you — which means you should watch it.” -Eugene Weekly
.”A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen’s thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious.”
James Becket
-Director of The Best Revenge
“Franklin Lopez is a fantastically talented filmmaker, who has created a powerful and important film about the most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the planet.”
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
“By far the most routinely praised contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked sense of humor that is often sorely lacking among alter-globalization activists. López’s work engages in constructing a new vision where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again.”
-Chris Robé, Pop Matters
“Franklin Lopez’ END:CIV is a labour of love, a stunning 75 minutes film…”
John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive
“It brought me to tears…” “I recommend it to people”
-Alex Smith, Host of Radio Ecoshock
“Franklin Lopez’s END:CIV project is awesome.”
-Shannon Walsh, Director of H2Oil
“Both the quantity and the quality of this movement’s filmmaking is increasing. This is the big battlefield on which we fight right now.”
-Michael Rupert, CollapseNet.com
Franklin López will be touring with END:CIV in 2011.
The END:CIV DVD by PM Press can be ordered now.
If you wish to book a screening in your town or want to order a DVD, simply click on the links below.
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen’s narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen’s poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
“A fierce critique of systematic violence and industrial civilization, End:Civ is not intended for garden-variety environmentalists. If you are anywhere below, say, an 8 on that sliding scale of pissed off, then this film is going to scare you — which means you should watch it.” -Eugene Weekly
.”A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen’s thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious.”
James Becket
-Director of The Best Revenge
“Franklin Lopez is a fantastically talented filmmaker, who has created a powerful and important film about the most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the planet.”
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
“By far the most routinely praised contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked sense of humor that is often sorely lacking among alter-globalization activists. López’s work engages in constructing a new vision where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again.”
-Chris Robé, Pop Matters
“Franklin Lopez’ END:CIV is a labour of love, a stunning 75 minutes film…”
John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive
“It brought me to tears…” “I recommend it to people”
-Alex Smith, Host of Radio Ecoshock
“Franklin Lopez’s END:CIV project is awesome.”
-Shannon Walsh, Director of H2Oil
“Both the quantity and the quality of this movement’s filmmaking is increasing. This is the big battlefield on which we fight right now.”
-Michael Rupert, CollapseNet.com
Franklin López will be touring with END:CIV in 2011.
The END:CIV DVD by PM Press can be ordered now.
If you wish to book a screening in your town or want to order a DVD, simply click on the links below.
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen’s narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen’s poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
“A fierce critique of systematic violence and industrial civilization, End:Civ is not intended for garden-variety environmentalists. If you are anywhere below, say, an 8 on that sliding scale of pissed off, then this film is going to scare you — which means you should watch it.” -Eugene Weekly
.”A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen’s thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious.”
James Becket
-Director of The Best Revenge
“Franklin Lopez is a fantastically talented filmmaker, who has created a powerful and important film about the most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the planet.”
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
“By far the most routinely praised contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked sense of humor that is often sorely lacking among alter-globalization activists. López’s work engages in constructing a new vision where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again.”
-Chris Robé, Pop Matters
“Franklin Lopez’ END:CIV is a labour of love, a stunning 75 minutes film…”
John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive
“It brought me to tears…” “I recommend it to people”
-Alex Smith, Host of Radio Ecoshock
“Franklin Lopez’s END:CIV project is awesome.”
-Shannon Walsh, Director of H2Oil
“Both the quantity and the quality of this movement’s filmmaking is increasing. This is the big battlefield on which we fight right now.”
-Michael Rupert, CollapseNet.com
Franklin López will be touring with END:CIV in 2011.
The END:CIV DVD by PM Press can be ordered now.
If you wish to book a screening in your town or want to order a DVD, simply click on the links below.
END:CIV; kültürümüzün sistematik şiddete ve çevresel sömürüye olan bağımlılığını inceliyor ve sonuçta zehirlenen tabiatı ve savaş bunalımındaki ulusları derinlemesine araştırıyor. Derrick Jensen’in Endgame (Oyun Sonu) adlı kitabına dayanan END:CIV izleyiciye şu soruyu soruyor: “Yaşadığınız topraklar, ormanları kesen, suyu ve havayı kirleten ve besin kaynaklarınızı zehirleyen yaratıklar tarafından işgal edilseydi, direnir miydiniz?”… Uygarlıkların çökmelerinin altında yatan nedenleri genellikle kaynakların aşırı kullanımına dayanır. Bunu yazarken, dünya ekonomik kaos, petrolün zirvesi, iklim değişikliği, çevresel yıkım ve politik karışıklıkla sendeliyor. Hergün, manşetler skandal hikayelerini ve kamu güvensizliğini temcit pilavı gibi ısıtıp ısıtıp önümüze koyuyor. Şu anki küresel sistemin sonuna dair öfkeli taleplerde bulunmamız gerekmiyor – çünkü çok yakında çökecek gibi görünüyor. Ancak, en çok hasar görmüş yerlerde bile cesaret, merhamet ve özgecilik eylemleri kaynıyor. Savaş ve baskının ağır etkilerine maruz kalmış insanların dirençliliğini ve ilerleyen krizle yüzleşmek için öne atılanların kahramanlıklarını belgeleyerek, END:CIV bu herşeyi tüketen çılgınlığın dışında makul bir geleceğe ışık tutar. Jensen’in anlatımı ile desteklenmiş film bizleri bu toprakları gerçekten seviyorsak eyleme geçmeye çağırıyor. Film, küresel ekonomik sistemin çözümlemesini yapmak için müziği, arşivsel metrajı, hareketli grafikleri, animasyonu, güldürüyü ve hicvi de kullanarak enerjik bir tempoda ilerliyor. END:CIV, Jensen’in şiirsel ve sezgisel yaklaşımıyla örtüşen birinci elden fedakarlık ve kahramanlık hikayelerini dikkatle ve duygusal olarak heyecanla yansıtıyor. Taşrada çekilmiş ekran görüntüleri korkunç ama olağan yıkımın traşlama kanıtının yanısıra kesici doğal güzelliğin perde arkasını gözler önüne seriyor.
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