Thursday 22nd February 2007, 8.30pm
Canal presents:
Wall Street (dir. Oliver Stone, 1987)
The film is a morality tale about a young stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) and his attempt to scramble to the top in 1980s New York. The plot is centred on Bud's relationship to high-powered (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) whose expounds a "Greed is Good" philosophy. When he's not asset stripping companies Gekko collects art, and so for Bud art and interior decoration become vehicles with which to gain acceptance within the (ultimately immoral) Capitalist elite that he wishes to enter.
Context
This film screening is being shown as part of the discussion Money Changes Everything: the impact of commerce on the artist-run space at Supermarket 2007, on Friday 23rd February, 3-6pm.
Hosted by
AK28
Krukmakargatan 28
1tr ned, porttelefon
118 51 Stockholm
www.ak28.org
Canal would like to thank Felice Hapetzeder and all at AK28 for hosting the event.
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