Category Archives: Film

Projekt A: A documentary about anarchist projects today

Posted on August 23, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

Financial crises and waves of refugees, social inequality and ecological catastrophes, terrorism and wars… Western civilization is like a bullet train accelerating toward a wall. And at the controls are governments that are not only incapable of solving people’s problems, … Continue reading →

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They broke his hands to silence his guitar

Posted on July 4, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

A furious sixteen-minute documentary responding to the coup in Chile remains a defining work of anti-fascist cinema Bleart Thaçi, Freedom News, (04/06/2026) Three months after the Chilean military coup of 11 September 1973, while the smoke of La Moneda still … Continue reading →

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Indigenous direct action

Posted on June 29, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

The Indigenous Struggles in Brazil (video) From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) The worsening crises threatening the world have left many people paralysed and powerless in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. But among Indigenous peoples, many groups are leading the way: … Continue reading →

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Two Prosecutors: A film by Sergei Loznitsa

Posted on June 24, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) At the start of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film, Two Prosecutors (2025), two NKVD Chekists – torturers working in a “special detention” centre – exchange a joke that makes them laugh heartily. The prison commander tells … Continue reading →

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Sabina Guzzanti: How Tiring Democracy Is!

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

Embrace diversity.Unite-Or be divided,robbed,ruled,killedBy those who see you as prey.Embrace diversityOr be destroyed. Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower We propose to risk making a statement of the basic and interrelated principles of anarchism (basic principles from which all … Continue reading →

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“understand that fascism is already here”*

Posted on March 30, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

I want to try to urge you to think about the historical system of slavery and the prison, the institution of the prison together. And specifically, I want us to think about the extent to which the vast global apparatus … Continue reading →

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For Frederick Wiseman (1930 – 2026)

Posted on February 19, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil, Grace and Gravity Frederick Wiseman died this last Monday, February 16, and whatever words we could share to celebrate his work we thought should be his. And as for … Continue reading →

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For Béla Tarr (1955-2026)

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

“I still consider myself an anarchist. But there’s an old saying, that goes, “If you’re not a communist by 30, you have no heart. But if you’re a communist after 30, you have no brain.” This is quite an old … Continue reading →

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For Peter Watkins (1935-2025)

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now [Jetztzeit]. For Robespierre, Roman antiquity was a past charged with the here-and-now, which he … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben – Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films (1995)

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

Returning to a text that we have published before, we close our series on Guy Debord’s films with a reflection on the same by Giorgio Agamben.

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