Kino Pravda 3G #1 brings to the foreground current images of global discontent: From the most recent G20 protests; the Green movement in Iran; the Red Shirts in Thailand; to student protests in the UK. We are witnessing not only the large-scale collapse of Capitalism but so too democracy’s inherent failures. While mainstream media’s repetitive slick images of riots create grand narratives, mobile phones in the hands of protestors, allow for the narration of their own stories. Public Studio scours Youtube to retell these stories in a serial format much like Vertov’s original newsreels.

Scouring the Internet for public protests around the world, the Kino Pravda 3G series function like contemporary newsreels. Kino Pravda 3G #2 picks up where Kino Pravda 3G #1 left off, with updated footage collected from You Tube between October 2010 and January 2011, and Vertov's original Kino Pravda footage. Sound design by Kaiser Nietzsche played live at the opening of the CIA exhibition at the AGYU on January 19th.

Kino Pravda 3G #3 is based on the Korean Hell March YouTube video. Using Soviet style propaganda, military marches and seas of ‘the masses’ in patriotic jubilance, North Korea aims to convey unity, normalization and strength. Kino Pravda 3G #3 focuses on both the function and binary crisis of content like this in the age of the Internet — the flux of information resulting in disorder or the lack of it resulting in oppression. The audio component emphasizes this tension. North Korean citizens, under the watchful eye of their minders, follow sight-restoring cataract surgery with praise for the ‘great leader’ and vow to show gratitude for this ‘gift’ by taking up arms against their enemies in the West.

The fourth of Public Studio's 'Kino Pravda 3G' newsreels turns its eye to public dissent in Canada. Public Studio is Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky in collaboration with Eshrat Erfanian. Elle Flanders is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto. She was raised in Montreal and Jerusalem and holds both an MA in Critical Theory and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her work has been screened and exhibited at the Berlin International Film Festival, the MOMA, TIFF, and festivals worldwide. She is a founding member of Public Studio with her collaborator, Tamira Sawatzky. Her most recent work includes: Public Studio’s Road Movie, a six screen installation on the segregated roads of Palestine that premiered at this year’s TIFF. Flanders is a PhD candidate in the Visual Arts Studio Program at York University where she also teaches. Tamira Sawatzky is an architect and artist working in Toronto. She worked for the award-winning firm MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects from 1998-2010. In 2010, she founded Public Studio Architecture and Public Studio with her collaborator Elle Flanders. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), the Art Gallery of York University (Toronto), Flux Factory (New York), and international film festivals. Eshrat Erfanian is a visual artist based in Toronto. She has an Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, and is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program in NYC. Her work has been exhibited in U.S., Europe, and Canada. Erfanian's most recent work "Start Dreaming" includes a seven-year ongoing project that documents the industrial urban landscapes in the city of Toronto and Northern Ontario, an attempt to bring to a stand still the movement and the migration of manufacturing/capital to “elsewhere”. Erfanian is currently a PhD candidate at York University where she also teaches.