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Thursday, 4. May 2006

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POPAGANDA: THE ART & CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH

Popaganda is an eye-opening journey through the life and career of this renegade artist. Starting out as one of the most infamous culture jammers, Ron English got his work out into the world by replacing paid advertisement billboards with his own art. Soon this grew into him altering billboard ads, twisting them around so that they actually spoke the truth. He would make it so Joe Camel would no longer be hustling cigarettes, but cancer instead and Ronald McDonald would be providing “better living through chemistry”. And then there’s the “Let’s Get Drunk and Kill God” billboard Ron did as a dare, risking being pummeled to death by a bunch of God-fearing drunkards with baseball bats in the process. It’s during this section of the film that we’re introduced to other notorious Culture Jammers, most notably The Billboard Liberation Front (as featured in the film Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture) and Shephard Fairey, the guy responsible for all those Andre the Giant “OBEY” logos all over Los Angeles. In talking about these people, Ron refers to them a couple of times as superheroes and in this film, they really do come off as such – like a guerilla artist Justice League or something." Quoted from Film Threat, the coolest movie mag ever!

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DER PHANTASTISCHE REBELL ALEXANDER MORITZ FREY oder Hitler schießt dramatisch in die Luft
(Atrium Verlag, Februar 2007)

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Vorabdruck bei Perlentaucher

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DER ROTE ELVIS oder Das kuriose Leben eines US-Rockstars in der DDR
(Aufbau Verlag/Gustav Kiepenheuer)

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