_El Día Que Me Quieras_ (Dir. Leandro Katz)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > > > _El Día Que Me Quieras_ (Dir. Leandro Katz),
>>  > > <http://users.rcn.com/leandrok/Pages/ElDia.html>.
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi:
>>  >It looks interesting, but it's not going to fly off the
>>  >shelves at $225 a pop.
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi:
>>  The video is certainly not priced for individual ownership.
>>  ...
>
>This concerns me.  I understand that there are strategies
>for dealing with it at my end, but I wonder if it's a good
>idea from the point of view of the producers.  Most of the
>people I know who sell videotapes and DVDs of their works,
>at every level of fame and success, don't go much over
>mass-market pricing.  That is because there is a certain
>supply-sidedness to media: the appearance of the object
>creates a demand for copies of it.  Similarly, I am
>discouraged by radical books selling for $60, with no text
>available on the Internet.  The most likely effect is that
>the information will remain very much within a bourgeois
>orbit of institutions, grants and expense accounts.  By
>contrast recall the cheesy socialist publications of a
>century ago, made of the very cheapest materials, which were
>obviously made to be sold at minimal price or given away.
>Today, only religious fundamentalists seem to maintain
>the practice.
>
>-- Gordon

Some of the movies I've shown at OSU since 9.11.01 are available on 
inexpensive videos.  Here's on-line purchase info:

_The Battle of Algiers_ (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo): $29.95, plus 
shipping & handling, <http://www.facets.org/>.

_Burn!_ (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo): $19.98, plus shipping & handling, 
<http://www.facets.org/>.

_Frontiers of Dreams and Fears_ (Dir. Mai Masri): $39.99, plus 
shipping & handling, <http://www.arabfilm.com/item/208/>.

_Good Kurds, Bad Kurds_ (Dir. Kevin McKiernan): for individuals (not 
including public performance rights -- for private use only), $39.95, 
and for libraries, universities, and organizations (including public 
performance rights for "no admission" events), $89.95, + $5.95 s/h, 
<http://www.silcom.com/~kevinmck/orderform.html>.

_Hidden Wars of Desert Storm_ (Dir. Audrey Brohy & Gerard Ungerman): 
VHS for non-commercial & home-video use exclusively, $20.00 + $5 s/h, 
and (S-)VHS for institutional & educational use only, $250 (plus s/h) 
/ $50 (for any additional copies), <http://www.hiddenwars.com/>.

_Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?_ (Dir. Marty Rosenbluth): 
$19.99, plus shipping & handling, 
<http://www.arabfilm.com/item.html?itemID=82>.

_The Panama Deception_ (Dir. Barbara Trent): $34.00 + $5.00 s/h, 
<http://www.empowermentproject.org/panama.htm>.

_People and the Land_ (Dir. Tom Hayes): $25.00, plus shipping & 
handling, <http://store.globalexchange.org/peopleland.html>.

The difference between low and high prices, as you can see from the 
prices of _Good Kurds, Bad Kurds_ and _Hidden Wars of Desert Storm_, 
lies in whether videos come with "non-profit" public performance 
rights.  Cheap videos are for private home viewing only, at least 
legally speaking.

BTW, Gerard Ungerman is now working on a new documentary on Plan 
Colombia.  If you would like to show it and/or _Hidden Wars..._ 
and/or invite Ungerman to discuss his work, please contact him at 
<freewillprod at prodigy.net> or 1-818-487-2879.  He's a great guy -- 
buy his videos and make libraries/universities/other likely 
institutions buy them, too!
-- 
Yoshie

* Calendar of Events in Columbus: 
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