The CMC will host a screening of Termite TV's THE BASICS TRILOGY, aka "Water Food Shelter" on Monday, May 17th at 8:00pm. This BASICS TRILOGY screening features experimental activist video group Termite TV Collective's latest series of shows based on basic human essentials, "Water,""Food," and "Shelter" produced, respectively, by Buffalo media artist Meg Knowles, Baltimore-based artist Joanna Raczynska and Philadelphia's Sara Zia Ebrahimi. Featuring work by: Sarah Christman, Michael Kuetemeyer, A.Q Quintero, Bob Hering & Maria Cortese Hering, Iden Rosenthal, Deborah Rudman, Anula Shetty. Brian Milbrand, and Courtney Grim.
WATER
While we attempt to restrict water use through pacts and treaties, sometimes we just can't stop that slow leak on the roof. Termite TV explores a variety of water-y issues, both poetic and political.
(29 min 2007)
FOOD
As our basic needs become more and more dear, our modes of survival must be creative, efficient, and self-sustaining. Termite TV examines what food means to us and to the media, and what our current conditions imply.
(29 min. 2008)
SHELTER
Housing problems, alternative architecture, concepts of home, and sanctuaries are all featured in Termite TV's final third of THE BASICS TRILOGY.
(29 min 2009)
For more info on Termite TV Collective please visit http://www.termite.org/
