New film by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler,
Screening at Artspace as part of the Occupy Art International Day of Action
Guest Speaker Steve Keen
2.00pm The Bull Laid Bear followed by Q+A with Zanny Begg
2.30pm Boom, Boom, Doom - Debunking the Economic Crisis, Steve Keen
Sunday February 12
Artspace
43-51 Cowper Wharf Road,
Woolloomooloo, Sydney
The Bull Laid Bear “lays bare” the economic recession (bear market) that hides behind each boom time (bull market). The film is structured around a series of interviews with US economists and activists including: William K. Black, a white-collar criminologist; Yves Smith, the author of the blog Naked Capitalism; Tiffiniy Cheng campaign coordinator for A New Way Forward; and Gerald Epstein co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute. The material gathered from these four interviewees has been blended with hand drawn animations to create a quasi-fictitious criminal world of gangster bankers and corrupt courts.
Sydney based performer Singing Sadie provides a sound track for the film with a reinterpretation of Billie Holiday’s classic lament on money, God Bless The Child.
Steve Keen
Steve Keen, Professor of Economics & Finance at the University of Western Sydney, has made a name for himself debunking economics (incidentally the title of his best selling book). Calling himself a post-Keynesian, he has taken on the shibboleths of neoclassical economics, renaming the “Efficient Markets Hypothesis,” for example, the “Financial Instability Hypothesis.” Steve’s iconoclastic brand of economics allowed him to predict the current financial crisis warning back in 1995 that a period of apparent stability could merely be “the calm before the storm”. Steve’s pithy, controversial and insightful critiques of debt and his daring proposals for fiscal change have earned him a global reputation as an economic commentator able to provide insight into these troubling times.
The Bull Laid Bear
Concept, film editing and production:
Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler
Animation and drawings: Zanny Begg
Camera and interviews: Oliver Ressler
Vocals: Singing Sadie
Piano: Mick Hanna
Other music: Captain Ahab
Camera Singing Sadie: Arunas Klupsas
Sound Singing Sadie: Jon Hunter
Sound and image editing: Rudi Gottsberger
Special thanks to Nancy Folbre, Brian Holmes, Jon Hunter, Pascal Jurt, Arunas Klupsas and Singing Sadie.
Financial assistance provided by Kulturamt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung and Australia Council for the Visual Arts New Work Grant.
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