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Category Archives: Film
Into the Fire
The state of exception is not a dictatorship, but a space devoid of law. Giorgio Agamben Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece, by Guy Smallman and Kate Mara, chronicles the plight of immigrants in Greece. But … Continue reading
Work will set you free: The art of Santiago Grasso
(Illustration by Santiago Grasso) A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. …This delusion is the love of work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual … Continue reading
For Stéphane Hessel
Je crois que la véritable création est impertinente. Stéphane Hessel, Le Monde (08/07/2011) Stéphane Hessel died on the night of the 26th to the 27th of February. And with him passes one more of that generation of women and men … Continue reading
475: In solidarity with the women of morocco
At 16, Amina committed suicide after a Moroccan judge sentenced her to marry her rapist. This film is about who and what let it happen.
Chronicles from our future present: greece
In the midst of the horrors of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg, citing Friedrich Engels’ statement that “Capitalist society faces a dilemma, either an advance to socialism or a reversion to barbarism”, posed the question, “What does a ‘reversion … Continue reading
Creating Revolution: 15M through images
Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does. It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world. The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading
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From Roarmag: “Utopia on the Horzon”
ROAR presents ‘Utopia on the Horizon’, a documentary on the Greek debt crisis and anti-austerity movement, dedicated to those who chose to struggle.
Exploding the binomial to enjoy alternatives: The revolution as trans
In fact we are all, deep down, transsexuals, we have all been transsexual infants, and we have been forced to identify with a specific monosexual role, masculine or feminine. … Continue reading
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MUTE – The visualisation of economic rape: Yiannis Biliris
As thousands protest today Angela Merkel’s visit to the financial protectorate of the Troika that is greece (09/10/2012), protests that were prohibited by the city authorities in the greater part of Athens, Yannis Biliris continues to capture the violence of … Continue reading
From film of denunciation to the revolutionary use of film
R. Magritte, La trahison des images Le monde est déjà filmé. Il s’agit maintenant de le transformer Guy Debord Contemporary social movements have contributed to and have been sustained by a proliferation of media production, often described as alternative, in … Continue reading →