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Anarchist Film Fest in Chicago, May 25 & 27 |
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by AFF
Email: anarchistfilmfest (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) |
16 May 2001
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The 2nd annual Anarchist Film Festival starts off and ends Matches and Mayhem, May 25-27, a weekend of anarchist culture in Chicago. Here's the schedule and more information. |
Last year the Anarchist Film Festival was a great success. It screened a wide assortment of inspiring, entertaining, and thoroughly radical films by and about anarchists. This year's Film Festival builds on that accomplishment.
The second Anarchist Film Festival will take place May 25 and 27 in Chicago, along with the other Matches and Mayhem events: the Anarchist Bookfair, Variety Show, Debates and Soccer Tournament.
This year's Festival selects from an even larger pool of submissions. Two screenings will feature documentaries, narrative shorts, and a feature length film.
More info at: http://www.azone.org/matchesandmayhem/
Friday, May 25, 7pm 623 S Wabash, Room 203
Reclaim the Streets San Francisco (15 min by Jino Choi) Counterculture takes over the streets of downtown SF, with dance music and radical politics. A fun, inspiring documentary.
Criminalizing Dissent (8 min, NYC Indymedia, et al) A sweeping overview of government repression in the wake of Seattle. Looks at anti-goblization action and police reaction through street-level footage and interviews.
Winstansley (95 min, by Kevin Brownlow) The dramatized history of a 1600's British movement called the Diggers. A nonviolent collective, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the soil that has been neglected by the British bluebloods. It isn't long before the landowners send their minions to burn out and kill the Diggers. Filmed in a beautiful black and white documentary style by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo.
Sunday, May 27, 7pm Chopin Theater, 1573 W Division
Surveillance Camera Players (8 min, by Surveillance Camera Players) New York artists perform for Big Brother's surveillance cameras. Bill Brown leads a troupe of activists to raise awareness of the increasing prevalence of cameras watching public spaces.
Contestational Robotics (5 min by the Institute for Applied Autonomy) A brief introduction to the work of the Institute for Applied Autonomy, robotic inventions that spread radical propaganda, flaunt graffiti laws, and extend activists' capabilities.
Subverting Media (30 min by Paper Tiger TV) A trip through the alternative media scene, meeting East Harlem muralist James De La Vega; anti-patriarchal poster collective, Sister Serpents; Bronx based graffiti group, Tats Cru; Sabrina Margarita Sandata, a feminist zinester challenging social and cultural stereotypes. Guaranteed to get you on the streets, defying corporate media, and spreading your own message.
Money Belt (10 min by Carolina Pfister) A thoughtful video memoir of a trip to New York, in which the Brazilian filmmaker describes "the shallow extravagances of American culture."
Frog in the Well (30 min by Cervando David Martinez) The biography of Ho-Kun Yuen, a Chinese immigrant to San Francisco in 1949. Yuen thoroughly documented the social movements of the Bay Area for over three decades. His archive and the philosophy behind it remained almost unkown until his death in 1997. |
See also:
http://www.azone.org/matchesandmayhem
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