Film Screenings
Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes of Anti-Imperialist Defense
Verso Books 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThe settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of ... Read more
The Factory, a film by Rahul Roy
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY“The production process had to become a very important element,” director Rahul Roy says. “That was a huge challenge.... How do you create a narrative around the production process without putting people to sleep?”
The Factory traces the monumental struggle of Indian auto workers of Maruti Suzuki, Manesar in their historic fight to form a union.
Resistencia: The Fight for Aguan Valley
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWhen a 21st century coup d'etat overthrows the only president they ever believed in, Honduran farmers take over the plantations. They have no plans to ever give them back.
Tout Va Bien: Screening with Discussion
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States“Tout Va Bien insists on class struggle throughout but is mainly about radicalizing its stars. Their role in the factory is to look and learn. Indeed, Godard and Gorin upped the class-resentment ante by having the striking workers played not by real workers but by unemployed actors.” —J. Hoberman, for Criterion, Tout Va Bien Revisited
Final Friday Film: Camp de Thiaroye
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesIn Camp de Thiaroye the tirailleurs use the traditional, highly rhetorical, almost theatrical, mode of debate of their various societies, but adapt this ritual form to the only language they have in common: the pidgin which the French insultingly call “petit nègre”, a language which is both a result and a tool of colonial exploitation. Here it is revealed as having a potential for eloquence, allowing it to become a moving medium for the articulation of feelings, needs, grievances and resistance, and thus ultimately for the development of the tirailleurs‘ collective political awareness and consciousness of themselves as Africans.
Final Friday Film: Happy-Go-Lucky
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWhen Poppy takes driving lessons for the first time, her positive attitude contrasts starkly with her gloomy, intolerant and cynical driving instructor, Scott. He is emotionally repressed, has anger problems and becomes extremely agitated by Poppy's casual attitude towards driving. As Poppy gets to know him, it becomes evident that Scott believes in conspiracy theories. His beliefs are partly attributable to his racist and misogynistic views, which make it hard for him to get along with others. Scott seems to be angered by Poppy's sunny personality and what he perceives as a lack of responsibility and concern for driving safety.
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Morgan is both of its time and points forward to the darker popular culture that would ensue later that year and into 1968, the year of international youth revolution. Indeed, its popularity among the young may well have facilitated this radicalization, certainly within Britain. The film's depiction of madness is deliberately ambivalent. The inner logic of Morgan’s statements and his sure self-knowledge, as well as his rejection of the consumer society’s superficial trappings, mark him as the only sane character. —Jon Savage, The Guardian
Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesA young executive hunts down his father’s killer in the scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan.