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“The Ballad of Ruby Ridge” Screening and discussion with journalist and film-maker Jon Ronson

January 15, 2015 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

| $15

“The Ballad of Ruby Ridge” Screening and discussion with journalist and film-maker Jon Ronson; Night 4 of “The Jon Ronson Adventures”

Date: Thursday, January 15th
Time: 8pm
Admission: $15 ( Tickets Here )
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn

For nearly twenty years the author and documentary maker Jon Ronson has undertaken a series of extraordinary adventures. He infiltrated Bohemian Grove – the fabled shadowy cabal where world leaders undertake a berobed ceremony in front of a giant stone owl. He followed David Icke as he promoted his theory that the shadowy cabal are actually giant blood drinking lizards that have adopted human form. He was the first man ever to rummage through Stanley Kubrick’s belongings. He uncovered the Men Who Stare At Goats – the secret US military unit that attempted to teach Special Forces soldiers supernatural powers. Now the Morbid Anatomy Museum will be showing rare screenings of the highlights of Jon’s documentary career, with a talk and a Q&A by Jon after each one.

Tonight’s film: The Ballad of Ruby Ridge.

In the early 1990s a family of white separatist conspiracy theorists - the Weaver family - went to live in a cabin on a mountain in rural Idaho. The father, Randy Weaver, got into trouble with the local BATF, and the trouble escalated, and escalated, until the Weaver family became embroiled in one of the darkest, saddest and most frightening moments in recent American history - the Siege of Ruby Ridge. In this film Jon returns to what’s left of the cabin with Randy’s delightful daughter, Rachel Weaver, to hear the inside story of this terrible siege - the siege that inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

Other films in the serie:

“The Men Who Stare At Goats”
This is the documentary that became the book that became the George Clooney movie. In this film Jon uncovers a secret US military unit – the First Earth Battalion – that attempted to teach soldiers how to become invisible, and walk through walls, and sense plant auras, and kill goats just by staring at them. Jon travels America meeting members of the unit, and pieces together their bizarre secret history.

‘Tottenham Ayatollah’
Jon’s first film – a year (1996) with the militant Islamist Omar Bakri Mohammed, as he attempts to turn London into an Islamic State. It’s unexpectedly absurd and funny and slapstick. Ronson chauffeurs Omar Bakri to Office World so he can get his ‘Islam: The Future of Britain’ photocopies done. He takes Bakri fishing with other Islamic fundamentalist leaders who get annoyed with him: “How are you going to fight the Jihad, Omar Bakri, if you can’t hold a fish?” He watches as Omar attempts to invite Osama Bin Laden to London for a conference. Bu post 9/11 this is a really eye-opening film – an inside look at a fledgling terrorist campaign – a world that’s about to change and nobody knows it.

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Date:
January 15, 2015
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost:
$15
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