SCENIC VIEW

Rooftop Films (in conjunction with I.F.C. & Radeberger)
Presents: Full Battle Rattle
Chelsea Market
75 9th Avenue (at 15th Street)

*7:00:Live Music by Buke and Gass
*7:30: Full Battle Rattle
(Full screening of film with a panel discussion afterwards
Free Radeberger Pilsner from 7pm)

Full Battle Rattle
(Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss | 2008)

"An indelible vision of modern war"--New York Magazine

Rooftop films returns to Chelsea Market for a special screening of Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss' Full Battle Rattle.

Full Battle Rattle is the story of a real war and a fake town. In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "virtual Iraq," a billion dollar urban warfare simulation and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role players. Army units spend three weeks inside the simulation before deploying to Iraq.

Gerber and Moss follow an Army battalion through the simulation, as they attempt to quell an insurgency and prevent the mock village of Medina Wasl from slipping into civil war. The story is told from both sides of the conflict, and filtered through a compelling cast of characters, including the Army Colonel who commands the Battalion, the Iraqi exiles who play civilians on the battlefield, and the American soldiers cast as "insurgents." We follow our subjects from the moment they receive their role assignments through their simulated "deaths." ...


Hmm sounds familiar...