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Retreat 2009

2009-11-12T08:13:00.001-08:00

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We had a great weekend out in the Catskills and made this horror-fun movie:
Enjoy!!!

Surveilling Surveillance: The Spy Store

2009-11-04T17:46:00.001-08:00

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Part of a longer production that explores modern surveillance technologies and how they affect us, this segment exposes civilian spy techniques at their weirdest and finest.

Shot at Spy Store NYC in the West Village.

David Harvey Interview

2009-10-25T17:26:00.001-07:00

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Art, Activism and Analysis: A New Series on Free Speech TV (Trailer)

2009-10-16T08:14:00.001-07:00

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Paper Tiger Television will present ART, ACTIVISM and ANALYSIS a 13-part curated series highlighting some of our most outstanding shows. The series presents a chronological look at how the content and style of the collective's work has changed since 1981. It covers a wide range of topics from racism, classism, DIY media, domestic violence, the prison-industrial complex, media conglomeration and displacement... just to name a few. Broadcast dates TBD but look for it sometime in late 2009 or early 2010 on Free Speech TV! Tune in!

Right to the City trailer

2009-10-09T14:32:00.001-07:00

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This is the trailer for our first collaborative documentary with IndyVideo
(the video component of the Indypendent).

The Right to the City (RTTC) is a documentary about the New York coalition
of many groups which are giving a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt 
the displacement of low-income people, LGBTQ, and  youths of color from their
historic urban neighborhoods.The RTTC is a national alliance of racial, economic 
and environmental justice organizations. Groups like Picture the Homeless, Make the
Road, Mothers on the  Move... and also academics such as David Harvey are part
of the local movement.

The 28-minute documentary will come out soon.
Look for broadcast dates and information about local screenings 
on our website in the next few weeks.

For more information check this out: http://www.righttothecity.org/

Let Them Eat (Stinky) Cheese!

2009-10-02T11:35:00.001-07:00

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On Thursday, September 24th, 2009, members of Times Up! orchestrated a bike ride and “Funky Protest Cheese Party” at Union Square to protest the privatization and transformation of the park’s Pavilion into a private upscale restaurant, a plan proposed by Danny Meyer and the Union Square Partnership. Through funky dance, protestors interrupted the annual private “dinner” for supporters of the privatization of the Pavilion, a place that is considered a birthplace of the Labor Movement and a historically important site for Free Speech: it’s an idea that stinks!

Paper Tiger Reads the 21st Century Working Woman

2009-09-25T07:33:00.001-07:00

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In this mock-local news program, Paper Tiger will consider whether the utopian vision of working women seen in the popular movies of the late 1980's has come to fruition. Through a mix of sketch comedy, video mash-up, news media critique, faux hidden camera segments, and interviews with working women and the organizations that promote them, Paper Tiger will examine the current state of women in the workforce.

worms!!

2009-09-18T13:21:00.001-07:00

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A closer look at worm composting--one form of DIY environmentalism and sustainable living in New York City.

Addicted to Beauty

2009-09-11T13:59:00.001-07:00

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Another sneak peek at an upcoming Paper Tiger production: "Reality Unreeled: The Really Real Unreal Reality of Real Reality TV." Stay posted!

Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger's summer 2009 interns are currently creating a show on reality television to explore the social impacts and affective stereotypes of this explosive and exploitative genre that has taken TV networks by storm. The show will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. The show will also include an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and “principal” of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real. And the interns will try to make sense of all of those "Addicted to Beauty" posters that you see everywhere through interviews with random subway passer-bys. Stay tuned for the release of the show in late Fall 2009. In the meantime, keep yourselves busy with this preview piece from the Paper Tiger archives with Herb Schiller on Geraldo and trash television—the unfortunate predecessors of contemporary “video nausea!!!”

July 23rd 2009: Tent City

2009-09-03T16:07:00.001-07:00

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Urban Environmentalism: DIY Green Living

2009-08-27T12:28:00.001-07:00

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Paper Tiger Television introduces you to New Yorkers who have found ways to live more sustainably through DIY environmentalism. The creative and unique projects of these city dwellers show how living in urban settings encourages rather than hinders their ability to live a green lifestyle. This show features segments on worm composting as an alternative to landfill waste, reusable bags for green markets, food foraging walks with Wildman Steve Brill, and the monthly "Really, Really Free Market" in Manhattan, hosted by the In Our Hearts Collective. As an extra bonus, there is also an archival piece about the thriving yet threatened Lower East Side community gardens, documenting the residents struggle to save their gardens from the wrath of Mayor Giuliani's gentrifying bulldozers. Finally, the show includes a studio conversation between community members discussing how environmentalism, through resourcefulness and perseverance, can become a part of everyone's urban routine.

reality bites: the summer intern show!

2009-08-20T12:30:00.001-07:00

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Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger's summer 2009 interns are currently creating a show on reality television to explore the social impacts and affective stereotypes of this explosive and exploitative genre that has taken TV networks by storm. The show will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. The show will also include an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and “principal” of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real. And the interns will try to make sense of all of those "Addicted to Beauty" posters that you see everywhere through interviews with random subway passer-bys. Stay tuned for the release of the show in late Fall 2009. In the meantime, keep yourselves busy with this preview piece from the Paper Tiger archives with Herb Schiller on Geraldo and trash television—the unfortunate predecessors of contemporary “video nausea!!!”

Street Art Takeover!

2009-08-13T09:53:00.001-07:00

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On April 25th teams of whitewashers and artists transformed over 100 of NPA City Outdoor's 480 illegal billboards in Manhattan from street level advertising to art. Organized by Public Ad Campaign's Jordan Seiler, the New York Street Art Takeover 2009 not only set out to bring more art to public space, but to raise the question of who controls our visual landscape?

Prescription for REAL Debate on Healthcare Reform

2009-07-29T10:21:00.001-07:00

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FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and local healthcare advocacy groups delivered a petition signed by over 12,500 people demanding that the TV networks include the single-payer proposal in their coverage of the national healthcare debate. The petition's signatories include Obama's longtime physician, Dr. David Scheiner; filmmaker Michael Moore; former MSNBC host Phil Donahue; actors Mike Farrell, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon; and doctors Quentin Young, Stephanie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program.

The petition was presented to a security guard, despite FAIR's efforts to speak directly to an ABC representative with editorial control. ABC News disinvited Dr. Scheiner from its recent forum on healthcare reform, where he'd been planning to ask Obama a question about single-payer.

FAIR, Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Now!, the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition, Code Pink and the Raging Grannies all took part in the petition delivery.

For more information www.healthcare-now.org/

Paper Tiger and IndyVideo Production

2009-05-15T13:13:00.001-07:00

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Tiger meets Indy

Left Forum Superhero 2009

2009-05-15T11:23:00.001-07:00

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IndyVideo and Paper Tiger TV went out to ask some serious and some funny questions at the 2009 Left Forum. Here is an example of what the people there thought about superheroes.

Surveilling Surveillance

2009-03-29T16:06:00.001-07:00

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Paper Tiger Television is currently in production on a new show on surveillance culture. From government wiretapping to Facebook, GPS systems to credit card swipes, Google searches to nanny cams- how are you being watched? What are the implications if living in a surveillance culture? Are we safer or are our civil liberties threatened? Watch out for this new production coming out in summer 2009.

An Emergent Second Life

2008-12-17T15:18:00.001-08:00

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For 27 years, the PTTV collective has played an important role in the tradition of media criticism, paying special attention to the inner workings of media production. The media landscape today, with the proliferation of new content providers, creates complex relationships and convergences among everyday and corporate forms of production, distribution and consumption. Media criticism no longer can take an "outside" vantage point, but must instead account for our general immersion in a veritable media ecology. This program, hosted by anthropologist Jason Pine (Purchase College SUNY), focuses on identity in the virtual world Second Life and what it can tell us about identity in everyday experience. It suggests that self-designed experiences may enable us to articulate emergent identities for ourselves and others. The program combines a live studio audience, videotaped testimonials of Second Life users who express profound personal investments while creating their avatars and environments, and experimental machinima (machine cinema) to evoke the experience of virtual self-design and world-building. Co- Producer and Director, Bianca Ahmadi; Associate Producer, Juan Rubio; Editor, Juan David Gonzalez; Content Director, Jason Pine.

Infiltrating the Underground: The Corporatization of Radical Culture

2008-12-16T15:09:00.001-08:00

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This Paper Tiger Television production was created in collaboration with author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. The show takes a look at how corporations are chipping away at democracy and personal integrity by copying the style and techniques of alternative culture. The program examines how and why anti-corporate culture and independent media have been co-opted by corporate advertising and their profit-making agenda, examining instances where the government and big business collude to silence independent voicesand concerns for social justice. Moore explains what happens when the underground becomes just another market and the implications for a democracy founded on the ideals of access to a diversity of ideas and perspectives. It also provides insight as to why underground culture willingly participates and what independent artists and media makers can do about it. Paper Tiger Televisions 27-year history of provocative independent television and Moores 23 years of independent print publishing combine in this compelling look at cultural production and economic censorship in this age of rampant branding.

Love Me, Love My Avatar

2008-12-15T14:29:00.001-08:00

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This show addresses changing notions of love and romance in the face of the rampant technological innovations of the Internet era. Dominic Pettman, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the New School and our avatar host take a look at love in the digital era. Pettman discuses several manifestations of "Love 5.0" such as objectum sexuality, virtual girlfriends, and cyborg love, and explore the possible impacts of this new love on the future of the libidinal economy. Includes a clip from Donna Haraway Reads National Geographic and a PTTV eharmony spoof.

Infiltrating the Underground Preview

2008-12-08T19:15:00.000-08:00

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Paper Tiger Television, in cooperation with author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore, presents a new thirty-minute documentary, Infiltrating the Underground: The Corporatization of Underground Culture, to air Wednesday, December 10th at 3 and 11 p.m. on Brooklyn Community Access Television, and at 8 p.m. on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. This video collaboration will look at how big business is chipping away at democracy through underground cultures—and how underground cultures willingly participate.

The program will examine how and why anti-corporate culture and independent media have been co-opted by corporate advertising and the profit-making agenda, examining instances where the government and big business collude to silence independent voices—and concerns for social justice. Copies of Infiltrating the Underground are available for purchase for classroom use or to air on local community access stations.

A follow-up to Moore’s 2007 New Press book, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity, the video Infiltrating the Underground investigates what happens when the underground becomes just another market, and what independent artists and media makers can do about it. Paper Tiger Television’s 27-year history of provocative independent television and Anne Elizabeth Moore’s 23 years of independent print publishing combine in this compelling look at cultural production and economic censorship in this age of rampant branding.

An Emergent Second Life

2008-12-02T09:04:00.001-08:00

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A television show produced in collaboration with Paper Tiger TV that focuses on identity in the virtual world Second Life and what it can tell us about identity in everyday experience. It suggests that self-designed experiences may enable us to articulate emergent identities for ourselves and for others. The program combines a live studio audience, videotaped testimonials of Second Life users who express profound personal investments while creating their avatars and environments, and experimental machinima (machine cinema) to evoke the experience of virtual self-design and world-building: www.papertiger.org

The show airs on December 3rd at 8pm on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) and at 3pm and 11pm on Brooklyn Community (BCAT). Co-producer and Director, Bianca Ahmadi; Associate Producer, Juan Rubio; Editor, Juan David Gonzalez; Content Director, Jason Pine.

Election Night Show Part 2

2008-11-08T22:49:00.001-08:00

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The second half of Paper Tiger's live hour-long live election coverage on MNN.

Election Night Show Highlights

2008-11-08T20:51:00.001-08:00

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From a surprise performance by an experimental gospel singer, to engaging discussions about Obama's silence on drug-war policy, his support for the Wall Street bailout, and his plans to increase military spending, Paper Tiger's live election show responsed in real time to the Democratic presidential victory.

Featuring Detroit-based experimental and gospel singer Abigail, the Indypendent newspaper's Steve Wishnia, Nick Powers and Arun Gupta, and Isabel Macdonald of the Paper Tiger TV collective.

Election Night Show Part 1

2008-11-08T19:27:00.001-08:00

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First half-hour of Paper Tiger TV's hour-long live election night show, broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (Manhattan cable access TV) 10:30 - 11:30 pm on November 4. Featuring the Indypendent newspaper's Arun Gupta, Nick Powers and Steve Wishnia and Paper Tiger TV collective member Isabel Macdonald.