Category Archives: Film

For Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021)

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn:he was the spirit of gravity–through him all things fall.Not by wrath, but by laughter, do … Continue reading →

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For Cecilia Mangini (1927-2021)

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Italian photographer and documentary film director Cecilia Mangini died on January 21. What follows is a modest tribute to an artisan-artist for whom the making of images was always an act of engagement with her subjects and her audience.

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Message to those outraged by (burnt) rubbish bins

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

A video intervention from the Cerveaux Non Disponibles collective (the text follows in English and French) …

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Notes on the state of the plague

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From the autonomous media collective, Bruxelles Dévie (and also posted on lundi matin), a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic through the words of Michel Foucault. The english language translation follows. This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which … Continue reading →

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Beyond the liberation of desire

Posted on October 18, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

With the Earth still spinning around, with the Sun still shining bright,Oh Lord, grant everyone’s wishes to make both ends meet:To the wise man give a wisdom, to the coward give a horse,To the happy man give some money … … Continue reading →

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For George Floyd

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

NOW! (1965) Production: ICAIC | Director: Santiago Álvarez (Cuba)| Photography: Archives | Music: Song, Now! performed by Lena Horne | Editing: Norma Torrado, Idalberto Gálvez | Sound: Adalberto Jiménez | 6min

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COVID-1984: Power, control and the struggle for freedom

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From antimidia (brazil) posted with koletiva.media … The struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic has been used by different governments to implement a variety of means of social control and to increase the powers of the police. Yes, the threat of … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong Wears Black

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag (21/11/2019), a film telling of the Hong Kong insurrection, by Ross Domoney … Since early June, a huge protest movement has erupted in the semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong against the encroaching rule of China. What started as … Continue reading →

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In solidarity with Vincenzo Vecchi and all imprisoned anarchists

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

News of the arrest of Vincenzo Vecchi in france last week reminds all of us yet again of the determination of State authorities to silence and criminalise dissidence, by whatever means available. Vecchi was finally condemned by italian courts in … Continue reading →

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G.A.R.I.: Grupos de Acción Revolucionaria Internacionalista

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

The Grupos de Acción Revolucionaria Internacionalista/Internationalist Revolutionary Action Groups (GARI) were a series of autonomous anti-capitalist groups, largely of anarchist inspiration, which coordinated to carry out armed agitation and propaganda actions after the self-dissolution of the Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL), … Continue reading →

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