Occupy Cinema To Screen Ballerina Projection And Performance (VIDEO)

The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to use the streets as their stage, with offshoot arts groups sprouting up to support the cause. Occupy Cinema is one of these groups, with a stated mission of using "the moving image to aid and nourish the Occupy movement." To date, they've screened occupy-minded films like "Capitalism: Slavery" and "Another Occupation." Tonight, a little something different -- the group will host a projection and performance at the Wall Street Charging Bull scupture from 6 to 8:30 p.m. From the teaser clip, it looks like the audience will be treated to a ballerina dancing atop the bull, like so:

It feels like something out of a movie, but this is real life, people.

WATCH:

Occupy Cinema // Charging Bull // Tuesday, December 6 from Occupy Cinema on Vimeo.

 

Comments

[Andrew Nutra]

12:33 AM on 12/08/2011

Ballerina on a bull? Yeah, that'll bring on a new world order. Try again.

[Sh00Fly]

01:36 AM on 12/09/2011

I feel sorry for you.

[SarcasticFringehead]

11:19 PM on 12/06/2011

A beautiful, powerful image.

The ballerina looks poised, calm and graceful riding upon what is now a famous and iconic image of rampaging greed.

A metaphor for the "Better Angels of our Nature" overcoming our baser instincts.

[NotaLiborCon]

06:30 PM on 12/06/2011

Wht the heck is this? When I was in college I went to a small college near PSU (1982 - 1986). When I pledeged my Fraternity we had a pledge activity called "Piss on the Nittany Lion". The entire pledge class, and subsequent pledges, drove to State College and pissed all over the famous Nittany Lion sculpure on the main campus of Penn State. That didn't stop Jerry Sandusky. I don't think a ballerina on the wall street bull is going to do anything either.

[afinch9]

06:24 PM on 12/06/2011

I am so glad to see that ows has not boycotted all the equipment made in offshored jobs in asian countries.

[iamyourknight]

10:18 AM on 12/07/2011

"offshore." I'm glad you are so judgmental. It's nearly impossible to buy "American made" these days, which is one issue OWS has touched on.

[afinch9]

12:10 PM on 12/07/2011

then why aren't they out starting "American " companies to make "American" goods and employ "American" workers?

[jondotd]

02:30 PM on 12/19/2011

Hello, I shot this video. If you are referring to the camera, you very well could be correct about it being made by "offshored jobs". However, I would like to reassure you that I, and many other people, are acutely aware of how reliant we must be—for reasons that one would have to be painfully disingenuous to pretend aren't obvious—on technology made under less than desirable circumstances. I come from North Canton, Ohio, a small town that's been completely transformed the last few years after its economic base was yanked from under it by the Hoover vacuum company moving operations to Mexico. This has been difficult for me and my community to experience. However, what's happening so far with OWS is the start of pushing back against this trend. And OWS has been an amazing conduit for likeminded individuals to discover each other, put their heads together, and leverage their collective expertise to devise new solutions to these problems. Even within our little cinema group we have, in fact, begun to modestly develop new technology made ourselves so we can begin to ween ourselves from the very structures we're expressly against. So essentially, it's really not inconceivable that we could, in some fashion, start "'American' companies to make 'American' goods and employ 'American' workers"—and within a structure that will avoid the corrupt, greedy and egregiously stupid decisions that have presently put so many people out of work. So if you'd like to see this change happen—take part and encourage it!

[afinch9]

07:42 PM on 12/19/2011

I applaude you and your effort. You would not believe the number of times I have suggested starting your own company to people and been rejected because they immediately think of a large multinational corporation which is inconcievable for them to try and start. It is the people like you who start small companies using american know how and labor and grow them into larger companies.You are the hope of the American Dream because believe it or not this is what it is.
Surely out there somewhere is someone who can convince people to buy american made goods because they are superior. Best of luck to you.

[afinch9]

07:43 PM on 12/19/2011

P.S. I think the effects are amazing

[carolduncan]

04:24 PM on 12/06/2011

And from Australia, Decadence: Decline of the Western World screens 8 Dec at the TriBeCa screening centre. Very relevant to the #occupy movement we are now seeing spread worldwide. http://www.decadencedocumentary.com/