http://theyesmen.org

The Yes Men is a group of pranksters-activists that gained world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on the Internet, on television and at business conferences around the world. They practice what they call "identity correction": they pretend to be representatives of powerful organizations and then use their newfound authority to speak truths that, ostensibly, those entities dare not.

In their latest intervention they appeared on the BBC as the spokesmen for Dow Chemicals, the company responsible for the Bhopal, India, disaster which killed thousands. When they declared that the company was finally accepting its responsibilities, the Yes Men managed to create a public scandal on an international scale.

"You know how a funhouse mirror exaggerates your most hideous features? We do that kind of exaggeration operation, but with ideas. We agree with people turning up the volume on their ideas as we talk, until they can see their ideas distorted in our funhouse mirror. Or that's what we try to do, anyhow but as it turns out, the image always seems to look normal to them".
The movie The Yes Men will be screened during the festival.