Feb 23-North Carolina-Durham-YesMen Screening & Conversation

Screen/Society presents…
Free and open to the general public!

Tuesday February 23rd at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater:
A special film event in the Kenan Ethics Series: ‘Control & Resistance’
“The Yes Men Fix the World”
– With special guests the Yes Men, in person!
(Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, & Kurt Engfehr, 2009, 87 min, USA, in English, Color, 35mm)
{view trailer: http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com}

A true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can’t take “no” for an answer. They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.

One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow’s stock value loses two billion dollars. People want Dow to do the right thing, but the market decides that it can’t. On their journey, the Yes Men act as gonzo journalists, delving deep into the question of why we have given the market more power than any other institution to determine our direction as a society.
Refreshments and snacks will be provided at the screening. Free parking is provided in the Bryan Center parking deck (validated parking passes will be handed out at the screening).

–> Post-film discussion led by “Yes Men” Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, and Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School.

Sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Documentary Studies, the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image