James L Reid “Let Fury Have the Hour”

On Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) producer James L Reid came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about the documentary “Let Fury Have the Hour.”

A lively social history that chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists channeled their creativity into an organized response and resistance to the reactionary politics that increasingly defined American culture in the 1980s. This idea of art as political statement came to be known as “creative response,” and, through insightful and energetic interviews with more than 50 influential creative voices, D’Ambrosio traces the movement from its earliest inklings in the Reagan-Thatcher era through three decades of social and political change.

An exuberant mixed media collage that incorporates graphic art, music, animation, and spoken word, Let Fury Have The Hour is a distinctive perspective on an era in time, retelling the history of modern America through the voices of the artists that interpreted and influenced it through their work, including Shepard Fairey, Eve Ensler, Wayne Kramer, Edwidge Danticat, John Sayles, Chuck D, Tom Morello, Lewis Black, and dozens more. D’Ambrosio’s stylish and inspirational film pays due homage to the parallel creative history of late 20th-century America in the words and work of the artists themselves.

James Reid (Producer) is a Los Angeles-based producer/director and owner of media production company nothingtosomething. Reid has produced several short form documentaries, most notably Soldiers Under Command, which competed in the AFI International film festival in 2004, among many others. He is currently wrapping production on feature-length documentary Born Again: The Power Team Story, which follows the journeys of a team of bodybuilding Christian evangelists as they travel the United States performing vaudevillian feats of strength to convert audiences to Jesus Christ.

Center Stage with Mark Gordon airs Tuesdays at 7PM (PST) on KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM and streaming live on the internet at www.kxlu.com

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