Fianancial Crisis Discussion

For this session, our topic is the world financial crisis. We will show a BBC documentary called “Super Rich: The Greed Game”, presented by Robert Peston.

On this documentary on the rot of the financial system, “Super Rich” explains why investors took so much risk over last decade. As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill.
 
At the heart of this television film – for which some of the most influential players in global finance were interviewed, including George Soros, Stephen Schwarzman, Michael Hintze, Jim Chanos, Sir Ronald Cohen, Mervyn Davies, John Moulton, Terry Smith and Paul Myners – is an examination of how remuneration practices at private equity, hedge funds and banking encouraged excessive risk-taking.

We are looking forward to seeing you.

The Cinema committee

- Here we come again -

Poster 5x01

We would like to invite you all to our 1st MOV(i)E IT! Cinema Committee Session of Winter Semester 2008/2009. It will take place next Wednesday, November 05th 2008, 19:45 @ Pi-Haus (Beethovenstrasse 5; if you still have no idea where it is, feel free to contact us!)

For this session, our topic is the role of religion in society. We will show a documentary called “The Root of All Evil? – The God Delusion”, written and presented by Richard Dawkins. The documentary looks at religion from a scientific perspective. Dawkins, a well known British scientist and popular writer with a very critical view on religion claims that religion stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.

Dawkins’ opinion about religion does not reflect the position of the Cinema Committee as a group. The members of the Cinema Committee present a variety of religious backgrounds from Atheists to Christians of different confessions and Muslims and therefore hold individually very different views on the importance of religion in society and in personal life. Nevertheless we decided to show this documentary because it takes a strong position and thus provides a good incentive to discuss religion in a hopefully open atmosphere.

We are looking forward to seeing you. 

The Cinema committee

Forced Resettlement in Istanbul

We would like to invite you all to our 2nd Mov(i)e it Session of
Summer Semester 2008. It will take place next Wednesday, May 21th,
2008, 19:45, @ Pi-Haus (Beethovenstrasse 5, if you still have no idea
where it is, feel free to contact us!)

For this semester, our main topic is Urban Development. This session
we are showing a documentary that takes place in Istanbul, in the
Sulukule neighborhood, and tells the story about the problems that
face the people who live in this area when their homes are demolished
in order to develop urban housing projects.

If you want to know a bit more about this problem, please feel free to
review the given links:

http://www.inuraistanbul.blogspot.com/

http://www.metrozones.info/istanbul/index.html

Hope to see you all there,

The Cinema committee

Liberté, égalité et fraternité??

This is the first session of our summer season, dedicated to the topic “Urban Developments”. This time, we will present the thoughts of people who live in suburbs of important cities in France and in Belgium. If you got something to comment upon, just post a message and LET’S MOV(I)E IT!!

- The Committee

Program for the Summer Semester 2008

H2O – US vs MX

You are invited to this semester’s last MOV(i)E IT! session.

It has been said that water is the reason for future disputes over states and countries. In this session, we will explore the difficulties faced by indigenous people of an area called Mexicali to get water from the Colorado River.

Hope to see you. January 16, 2008. 7:45 p.m. at Pi-Haus.

- Jorge

¿Por qué no te callas?

 

Don’t miss out our next MOV(i)E IT! Session on December 05, 2007 at 7:45 p.m.

- The Committee

A different glitter of gold

Have you ever stopped a sec to think of how do precious minerals (the ones in fancy watches, necklaces, rings, and a whole other bunch of accesories we all wanna have) get to the stores where people buy them? Are there any negative consequences of mining activities on someone?

We will begin this season on Wednesday 7 of November with a film that shows the life of municipalities in Ghana, which live traditionally on agriculture and how have their lives completely changed after gold-mining activities had taken place in their communities.

This documentary will show us the two sides of the coin: in one side, the affected people’s testimonials; and in the other side, the company’s statement of corporate social responsibility (CSR).

- Jorge

Football!

 

Do you know how Football, the Mexican-American border and a poor girl from Cambodia are linked? No? I see….you have not been to our last semester’s movie sessions. The topic was migration-work-globalization. The only acceptable excuse for not being there is that you didn’t find us in Lessingstraße, but then we blame you for not looking at our posters properly. They show our new location, Pi-Haus, which is a lot more comfortable, larger and has……a bar. If this still didn’t catch you, you are a dead loss.

Should you be one of the “good excuse” persons you missed some great movies and discussions. We shocked some guys, crazy for football, that most of the African stars in all the European leagues have been trafficked to Europe in an illegal way. They came here with the dream of money, to help their families back home. In our beloved football leagues they play with balls, made by poor Pakistani children, having no other choice of earning money to help feeding their families.

This is the same intention some young women from mostly Eastern Europe have, getting caught by slave traders promising them a better life. After all their lives are not better than that of a Cambodian girl, being interviewed in one of the films, who has been held as a sex slave for years. No one knows how often she had to do her horrible “work”, but it was mostly with men from the industrialized world, the world that seems to be so perfect. So perfect that everybody wants to live in it and even risk their lives to do so. Just as some poor people from Mexico try every day at the U.S. boarder, in search of a better life, taking the risk to get shot and never see their home again.

This is globalization made by MOV(i)E IT!. This is how we want to make you think and after all make you tell us about your opinion.

– Patricia

Welcome!

We have finally gotten the Movie Blog that was started at the beginning of the third semester movie session!

Thanks to all the kind people who have contributed to the Mov(i)e it! initiative (We will need your help in the future) and to all those who have participated in any way in our activities – we couldn’t have done it without you.

We also welcome anyone who wants to join us in any capacity. Come to our movie sessions held in the Pi-haus, Freiberg, Germany, or stop by and visit our website.Please feel free to post any suggestions or ideas you may have – we really appreciate it.

- Yin