Astonishing film sponsored by a newspaper which held a contest for the most unusual dream and then made it into a short film. A woman dreams of losing her baby, rowing across San Francisco Bay and finding her child in an unusual place. Producer: Oakland Tribune-American Audio/Visual: Si, B&W

We Interrupt This Empire... (2003, DV, 52:17) is a collaborative work by many of the Bay Area independent video activists which documents the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United States invasion of Iraq. With the audio backdrop including live broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the corporate media coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attack on civil liberties, and the United States current imperialist drive. The Video Activist Network (VAN) is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns. http://videoactivism.org/empire.html empire@videoactivism.org