Boundless Newfound Energy for the LFF

Over the last few months I’ve been running myself ragged, touring Europe, going to Sundance and SXSW, Seeing some amazing new films and bands, being on tour through the midwest, working super hard on building the Evil Twin Booking Agency … I’ve also been wondering why I’ve been doing all this.

…and I’ve rediscovered that it’s all about inspiring and conspiring.

I’m thrilled to be heading out on the road again this spring. In the works are some more tours through the midwest and a big west coast tour in the month of May. I’ll also be visiting some bigger festivals like Coachella, Lightning in a Bottle, Bonnaroo, Synergy and the Green Festival. yay! If you’d like to help bring Lost Film Fest to your town, please get in touch with us at info (at) eviltwinbooking.org or visit http://www.eviltwinbooking.org/events.cfm?view=PERFORMERS&artist_id=64

xo Scotty

Lost Film Fest @ The Caucus Of The Future in Iowa

Well, it looks like I’m about to kick off the swing states tour schedule right at the beginning of the year in Des Moines; Jan 3 to be exact. I’m proud to be part of The Caucus Of The Future, which is an alternative to the Iowa Caucuses. I’ll be presenting Lost Film Fest there and giving workshops. It’s an alternative in the sense that it’s all about self reliance and sustainability, and relying on our own communities for problem solving rather than electing officials who are beholden to corporate interests.

xo Scotty

Take a peek:

The Caucus of the Future will take place January 2nd & 3rd, 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa, running concurrently with the Iowa Caucuses. Our goal is to dream up and practice the many ways we can take power out of the hands of those who claim to represent our interests, be they elected or unelected, and redistribute it to everyone through a network of free communities and neighborhoods. Through workshops, discussions and performances, the Caucus of the Future will provide a forum for exchanging alternative ideas that are based on mutual aid and cooperation. Patrons of the Caucus will share skills and resources with each other, demonstrating the many ways we can make a difference in our own lives, with or without casting a vote. We do not do this to gain control over others, but to attain control together–over how we provide each other with shelter, education, art, and information, over how we resolve conflicts, over how we share resources and ideas, over how we determine our own lives.

Some workshops and discussions you can expect to see might include: Alternative Energy/Fuel, Sustainable Agriculture/Permaculture, Alternative Media, Direct Action, Self-Defense, Folk History, Bicycle Repair, Community Gardening, Consent, Gift Economics, Urban Exploration, Community Organizing, Alternative Education, and much more.

The Caucus of the Future will provide a festive atmosphere with free organic vegetarian food and beverages, and performances by musicians and artists.

For more information please visit www.caucusofthefuture.com or contact info@caucusofthefuture.com

Lost Film Fest Euro tour and such

Hey all.. we just had an amazing week hanging out at IDFA in Amsterdam. We saw a ton of great docs including Querido Camilo, Deserter, Wild Blue Yonder, and Up The Yangtze. We also made a bunch of new friends and connected with some old ones. I ever DJ’d some Balkan beats for the Up The Yangtze parties on a houseboat on a canal. What fun! Now we’re off to Antwerp for the first show of the tour. I’m really excited to be sharing the stage with Subtitle who’s in Lab Waste.. woo!

So, here’s a collection of the European tour flyers and info about the shows. I hope to see some of my old friends at the shows. xoxo Scotty

Nov 30 Fri Belgium, Antwerp @ SCHELD’APEN | D’HERBOUVILLEKAAI 36 | 2020 ANTWERP | 21.00 | 5€

Dec 1 Sat LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg City @ SUNSET CINEMA - Cour du Couvent - Bonnevoie - 8pm - Free (presented by FILMREAKTER) http://sunsetcinema.wordpress.com/

Dec 5 wed BELGIUM, Liege @ La Zone | 42b Quai de L’Ourthe, 4020 Liege Belgium | 20h00 | 4€ http://lazone.be

Dec 7 fri NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam @ occii | Amstelveenseweg 134 | 1075 XL Amsterdam | 4€ | tel. 0031-20-6717778 | www.occii.org


Dec 8 Sat NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam @ iLLUSEUM - Witte de Withstraat 120 | +31(0)20-7705581 | illuseum [at] gmail.com | www.illuseum.com | doors @ 20h, show starts 21h | 6€

Dec 9 Sun GERMANY - Hamburg @ fs115 | faehrstrasse 115, 21107 | 19h | 3 €


Dec 11 tue GERMANY - Berlin @ Subversiv | brunnenstrasse 6/7, 10119 | 21h | 4€ | myspace.com/subversivberlinmitte (close to u8 rosenthalerplatz)

Lost Film Fest European tour starts

Liz and I just arrived to the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Our friend Matt Pascarella from the BBC is flying in from NYC shortly, and then we’re off to adventures. We’re completely exhausted, and totally nerding out in a corner by an electric socket, but in a few hours I’ll be presenting a short vj set at the 20th anniversary celebration of IDFA. I also just found out I’ll be doing Lost Film Fest in Berlin on the 11th. Information about that show is forthcoming.

My old friend Alain and the crew from La Zone in Liege have been working feverishly to do the french subtitles for a bunch of the films. They are totally rocking my world right now. We’re super looking forward to the next three weeks. I’m so glad to get out of the fucking united states for a bit. I really need a break from the Idiocracy. xo Scotty

Lost Film Fest @ IDFA!!!!

So, it looks like Peter Wintonick decided to host Lost Film Fest @ IDFA!! Holy moley!! Yay!! I’m going to be flying over to Europe a bit earlier than I expected. xo Scotty
IDFA 20th Anniversary Celebration Event (LUSTRUM)
Tuchinski 1 Theatre Regulierstraat Amsterdam
14:00- 17:00
Related and included Screenings of Operation Homecoming
and Dear America begin at 10:00am in the Munt
Free to all Delegates and Guests to IDFA, but you must Get your Tickets !!
Public can order thru the IDFA box office

This year IDFA hosts a Special 20th Anniversary Celebration (or Lustrum) with festive, positivist and spirited contributions from important filmmakers, musicians, activists, thinkers, poets, cabaret sketch artists and comedians. The Celebration’s key themes spring forth from the lessons of war, social engagement with the world, and how the quest for documentary truth by independent artists sometimes clashes with mainstream media’s interpretations of reality.

All around the world these days, documentary filmmakers are again on the front-line barricades, building on a legacy of resistance and organizing going back to the Sixties in the States. Times may have changed from Vietnam to Iraq. Our worldview may have grown less ideological, more complex and confused. Our new world is no longer framed by overt ideologies, but by values of social and economic justice. But the essential role of documentary to put a human face on war and peace, to speak the truth, has never wavered. With an array of important guests and activists, this centerpiece IDFA event is expected to get us all up off our seats and into a positive space again. Films in this year’s IDFA programme, from reflections like Dear America: Letters Home from Viet-Nam and F.T.A. to contemporary films like Operation Homecoming and Deserter are the ties that bind us to the notion that Truth can be found in the Documentary form.

GUESTS :
Hosted by Dutch TV personality Sophie Hilbrand and Bert Bakker; Musicians Mother Tongue from Peter Entell’s Shake the Devil Off; Stand up comedian Jan Jaap Van der Wal; Media Critic Noam Chomsky from MIT (USA); IDFA director Ally Derks; Filmmaker Bill Couturié director Dear America; Richard Robins director Operation Homecoming; South African activist Marion Cloete from Louise Hogarth’s Angels in the Dust; Chile’s Ariel Dorfman in Peter Raymont’s A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman; Dr. James Orbinski Dignitas/Doctors Without Borders in Patrick Reed’s Triage: The Dilemma of Dr. James Orbinski; Risa Morimoto director Wings of Defeat; Producer Diane Weyermann Chicago 10; Rick Rowley director Deserter; Director Maziar Bahari IDFA TOP 10 / Retrospective; Musiclip from Green Day / John Lennon’s Working Class Hero (Amnesty International Darfur Campaign); Luis Moreno Ocampo Darfur Now; Scott Beibin director LostFilmFest  Also pending: US activist Tom Hayden Chicago 10, Christopher Hartley activist priest in Bill Haney’s The Price of Sugar, Larry Flynt, Sean Penn (tbc) War Made Easy

Lost Film Fest shows coming up

I have 3 LFF shows coming up close by Nov 5-7. I’m pretty excited because a documentary film crew (jaded multimedia) will be following Liz and I around trying to gain some insight into what the hell we’re doing (do we even know?) Hopefully they will figure it out. Here are the dates/locations. Please spread the word. Bring friends!

Nov 5 Mon
Philadelphia, PA @ Bubblehouse. | 3404 Sansom St. | 9pm | admission by donation | all ages

Nov 6 Tue
Brooklyn, NY @ The Change You Want To See | 84 Havemeyer St. | 7:30pm | dontation $5-10 sliding scale | http://notanalternative.net/wordpress/

Nov 7 Wed
Doylestown, PA @ Siren Records | 22 s. Main St. | doors 6pm | $6 | http://www.sirenrecords.com/

I’ll post the European tourdates as they become clear. There’s also a chance I’ll be doing 2 midwest dates at Loyola and Oberlin after the west coast tour if all goes according to plan. If not I’ll go there in the spring. The next couple of months is going to be pretty crazy: Green Fest in San Francisco, traveling down the west coast doing Lost Film Fest and spreading Raw Revolution bars around, Doing Lost Film Fest shows in the midwest, Thanksgiving with my family, Touring Europe with lost Film Fest doing stuff with IDFA, the EU cultural capital, and activist spaces. I’m dying to do the film fest at Mariatchi (Manu Chao’s neighborhood bar) in Barcelona.. I can only dream.. I’ll be coming back to the trial as well as the perils and travails of living in wild west Philadelphia…

xo Scotty

Stuff this weekend and Lost Film Fest update

Tonight/Tomorrow:

Halloween Critical Mass in NYC, Rubulad… tomorrow we’ll go to a cool art exhibit and the anti-war march. I believe our new friend Lara will be joining Liz and I on our adventure. Sunday night we’re going to see our Seripop friends Chloe and yannick’s band AIDS WOLF and Old Time Relijun

Lost Film Fest update.

I just had some awesome shows opening for Gogol Bordello. What a dream!! I think the only thing that could top that would be opening for Manu Chao…Maybe some day. I’ve never presented LFF in front of such a large crowd of people but the shows went over well, and I made some new friends. I’ll be doing Lost Film Fest again in the near future at this awesome club in Baltimore called Sonar. I’m definitely going to start to have to use a mic at large concerts like that… John Macavoy, boy genius and arch archivist has started to work on documenting the history of the Lost Film Fest and Evil Twin Booking Agency. I can’t believe all this stuff I’m doing with film is almost 10 years old. holy moly! The other day, I had an awesome show in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Tech. Sallie, Anthony, Dan, and Devin pulled the show together without a hitch. Old friends Sascha and Madigan were on tour with the Icarus Project and happened to be in town. It was great to have them there.

xo Scotty

FBI's Lolita Fingers Eric McDavid.

The past few weeks have found me deluged by emails, IMs and phone calls about the incredibly bizarre mention of Lost Film Fest during the trial of environmental activist Eric McDavid.

Here’s a bit of background for those of you who haven’t gotten the lowdown on the “green scare”, and the case of Eric McDavid’s entrapment by the FBI’s secret agent Lolita. I have been paying close attention to the case (originally called the Auburn 3 case - now it’s one plus 2 snitches) for the past year or so, and of course followed the trial from when it began.

So: The US government has been trying for years to spread fear about the environmental movement by labeling environmental activists as terrorists. Eric McDavid’s case is part of this federal offensive, and it reeks of entrapment.

A few years ago the FBI, apparently inspired by the fine American cinema masterpieces “Spy Kids” and “Red Dawn”, recruited a 15 year old top spy named “Anna” straight out of junior college civics class. “Anna” was a high school student at the time. They gave Anna their blessing to play hookey for the next two years and charged her with the mission of finding terrorists within the radical environmental movement. Failing that, she had to scrounge up the next best thing…

Anna, armed with an expense account to buy garlic, grungy thrift store clothes and supplied for concocting dud bombs, set out to infiltrate the environmental activist movement and encourage criminal mischief. According to the trial transcripts, “Anna” attended a bunch of protests and posed as a street medic. (Having zero medical training, she brushed off injured people who came to her for help.) She befriended three young activists, including McDavid, and spent the next bit of time traveling with them.

Anna brought the group to a wiretapped cabin in California owned by the FBI, where she used her Lolita skills to woo McDavid into helping her assemble sabotage devices. The devices were built to fail, taken from tried and true FBI dud recipies. McDavid and crew were arrested by the cabin and charged with “conspiracy to destroy property by means of fire or explosives”, even though their collective organizing skills were probably best suited to planning vegan potlucks.

While Lost Film Fest is mentioned tangentially in the prosecution’s outlandish rant, the prosecution’s statement regarding Lost Film Fest is consistent with the sort of scare tactics, flimsy rhetoric and blatant lies our government uses to justify harsher penalties and broader definitions in the crackdown on people who speak out about injustice.

Here is the quote in question, in reference to events at the 2005 Philadelphia Bio conference. We apologize for the transcriber’s poor phrasing.

“He [the prosecutor] also talked about the cop that died of a heart attack and said he died because he was ‘wrestling’ with protesters. He said that some people felt sad about it and wanted to have a vigil and the people that were glad that the cop died went to the ‘Lost Film Festival’ where they were showing films on how to make molotov cocktails. [McDavid’s lawyer] objected to that comment and the judge ordered the jurors to strike it from their memory.”

Was the prosecution saying that independent film festivals are “danger zones” where people learn how to make molotov cocktails? Is he saying that public art events are breeding grounds for terrorism? This reminds me of John Ashcroft’s post 9-11 freakout over nude statues on Capitol Hill while the anthrax scares raged.

Whew, I’m glad the judge had the good sense to “strike” that from the jurors’ memory. Did he use a Vulcan neck pinch to do that? Hypnotism?

Anyhow, the sad ending to the whole thing is that McDavid was convicted of conspiring to blow up government and other facilities as part of an eco-terror plot, due to technicalities, and now awaits sentencing in December. This conviction carries up to 20 years in prison. I’m not sure how the guilty verdict was reached, since the jury came out of the trial calling “Anna” and the FBI liars, and saying that they should be ashamed of themselves. Eric’s lawyer is currently working on an appeal. Any contribution you can make to this case will help. Please visit www.SupportEric.org for more information on how you can help.

The Indypendent’s coverage sums up McDavid’s case well (http://www.indypendent.org/2007/09/15/the-net-widens/) and includes other articles on the “Green Scare” documenting the federal government’s aggressive actions against protesters.

Personal blog | Lost Film Fest Euro tour | and MIRO

Hello all.  so I finally started a personal blog finally. enjoy! link me if you’d like.http://scottbeibin.blogspot.com

All of the not-directly LFF related stuff is going to go there.

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I finally confirmed the first show of the 2007 Lost Film Fest European tour in Luxembourg. So I’m roughly going to be in Europe from Nov 28ish -Dec 23ish. If you’d like to book a show please email info (at) evil twinbooking.org

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I’m going to start a channel on Miro pretty soon for Lost Film Fest. It’s this great new open source video player . Download it for free at: http://www.getmiro.com

Here’s a little info about miro from Ezra Winton of http://www.artthreat.net :

this nifty application is one smooth player, offering already 2000 video channels for your downloading/viewing pleasure. Miro is an open-source desktop video player that comes with BitTorrent and podcast clients as well. Miro hails from the folks at Participatory Culture Foundation, and with people like Joel Cohen and Cory Doctorow on your Board of Directors it’s not too surprising they’ve come up with the non-proprietory video version of iTunes.

I’ve only spent a couple of hours with my [miro player], but in just a short time I’ve discovered some great channels with political content. So after you download the player, search for these dandies, and add the channels to your list and enjoy!

• The Media That Matters Film Festival: All 65 short films from the last seven years of the festival are ready to download in amazingly high quality video. From environmental issues to race and gender, this fest has much to offer. Visit the MTM site for more info.

• Molotov!: Nude protesters, news from Nigeria, Michael Moore, and the best, Simon Robson’s brilliant animated follow ups to “What Barry Says” with his short segments produced for the new UK film Taking Liberties. Visit Molotov’s site.

• Pepperspray Productions: Alternative focus shows from “IndyMedia Presents” including pieces on Iraq and Somalia.

• Latin Pulse: Episodes examining paramilitary groups in Central America, Public Transporation, Immigration, and Free Trade, all from a Latina perspective. (not exactly progressive, but important news from the margins…

There are much, much, more channels to choose from, but this spattering is just the beginning of what I have begun to discover with [Miro].

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ok cool!

Scotty Beibin

Burning Man stuff

Hey all ..

Liz and I haven’t decided yet where we’re going to be camping, but we will be arriving on Monday the 27th at some point and stay the whole way through (Sept 4). In terms of our coordinates, we’re looking to stick around the 7:30ish area. If you’d like us to camp with you and want some folks to chip in for vegan goodies, let me know.

I’ll be doing Lost Film Fest in a few different locations like Entheon Village and The Philadelphia Experiment, though I don’t know the dates and times yet. Check in Center camp, or leave a message for me if you want info.

If you’d like to meet up, please text me at 267 258 4195 before monday to let me know where you’re going to be.

We’re thinking about creating an imprompu outcropping of West Phillyage complete with Rowhouses, Rats, and Omar (yes, Omar)…[**aren’t we trying to get the hell away from West Philly - what mysteries!]

Anyhow, I’ll be registering at Center Camp when I arrive.
If you want some organic sodas/energy drinks for your camp/bar/traveling-zombie-bicycle-gorilla-show, let me know. I convinced Steaz to gift a few pallets which are going to be at the Philadelphia Experiment camp (7:30 and esplanade).

So, yes, I’m super stoked for this. I think it will be one of the best years ever.

much love
Scott

ps. We’re going to hijack your art car! yarrr!!




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