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Viva l’anarchia: Lina Wertmüller (1928-2021)
In grotesque realism… the bodily element is deeply positive. It is presented not in a private, egoistic form, severed from other spheres of life, but as something universal, representing all the people. As such it is opposed to severance from … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarchist film, Art and Revolution, Lina Wertmüller
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Remembering Spain: Fascism, Revolution and Colonialism
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, morroco, spain, State terror, the spanish revolution
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Thinking politics from Sergei Loznitsa’s “State Funeral”
A revolution’s most important works of art are the men produced by it. New fiery souls are seen to arise from the explosion of new life that cleaves the convulsed world, like anthems that fill the air with clamours of … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Groys, Communism, revolution, russian revolution, Sergei Loznitsa, Soren Kierkegaard, State and terror, State terror
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The Paris Commune: The Animated Engravings of a Revolution
In an extraordinary cinematographic labour, Raphaël Meyssan adapted the three volumes of his eponymous graphic novel, for which he had collected hundreds of engravings in newspapers and books of the time. From this patient quest for archives – eight years … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: In film
The Paris Commune of 1871 will have a life well beyond the historical events that mark the moment, politically, but also in various forms of artistic-political expression. The examples are many (music, poetry, literature, and so on), but in this … Continue reading
Tunisia: Rebellions, past and present
News and reflections from Tunisia shared with the CrimethInc. collective (09/02/2021) and a video called “Ten“, a record of some of the many voices of Tunisia’s rebellions produced by the Nawaat news magazine … Ten – Ten years after Tunisia’s … Continue reading
For Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021)
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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Tagged Art and Revolution, Jean-Claude Carrière, surrealism
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For Cecilia Mangini (1927-2021)
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.
Message to those outraged by (burnt) rubbish bins
A video intervention from the Cerveaux Non Disponibles collective (the text follows in English and French) …
Travis Wilkerson: An Injury to One (film)
It may be said that the “working class”, in political struggles throughout the emergence and expansion of capitalism, was epochal. We use the word here in its ancient Greek sense. The Greek word epokhe meant “stoppage, fixed point of time,” from epekhein “to … Continue reading →