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Category Archives: Film
Tourism: The spectacle of travel
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust A celebration of the Left Hand Rotation’s documentary film, “Fascínio”. Tourism is the highest form of alienation in our time. The modern traveler is divorced from all relations to place and … Continue reading
Freedom’s flesh: For Bernardo Bertolucci
But, preacher, I feel my strength abandon me. Put aside your prejudices, be a man, be human, have no fear and no hope. Abandon your divinities and your creeds which have never served any purpose save to put a sword into the … Continue reading
Love and revolution: A film by Yannis Youlountas
We share below Yannis Youlountas’ most recent documentary film-testimony of struggles for autonomy in greece. In letting those who are directly engaged in these struggles speak for themselves, his work offers a glimpse of what served as a title for an … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, autonomy, greece, migration, rebellion, self-management, Yannis Youlountas
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Noam Chomsky: Requiem for the American Dream
Four years of filmed interviews with Noam Chomsky, on the politics and economics of the “neoliberal” united states of america, an america of obscene inequality and oligarchic rule … Disagreements aside, we share the documentary “Requiem for the American Dream”, … Continue reading
Crossing the borders of struggles: In solidarity, in memory, with the Mapuche and Santiago Maldonado
The enslavement to capitalism occurs in multiple spaces and times. If commodity production and the submission to money homogenises and deterritorialises, the reproduction of capitalist social relations distributes human populations across differential, hierarchical and conflicting geographies and histories.
Posted in Commentary, Film
Tagged anti-capitalism, argentina, capitalism, Indigenous peoples, revolution, Santiago Maldonado
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With and beyond anti-fascism (4): “ANTIFA”, a documentary film
We continue with our series of posts documenting and critically reflecting on anti-fascism … The latest Global Uprisings documentary explores the broader meaning of the anti-fascist movement, taking the viewer to the scenes of street battles from Washington to Berkeley … Continue reading
Revolution in the end time (2): A reflection
Our response to the climate crisis has been to rearrange deckchairs on the Titanic — but whatever we do, it isn’t working. It’s time to try something new. From roarmag, an essay by Kevin Buckland; a further reflection on … Continue reading
With and beyond anti-fascism (2): “The Antifascists”, a documentary film
A second part on our series on anti-fascism, this time, a reflection through film …
Notes on the Bure ZAD and the politics of eternity/death
Un grand sommeil noir Tombe sur ma vie : Dormez, tout espoir, Dormez, toute envie ! Je ne vois plus rien, Je perds la mémoire Du mal et du bien… O la triste histoire ! Je suis un berceau Qu’une … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, ecology, france, Gunther Anders, Hannah Arendt, revolution, ZAD
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The gilets jaunes: The war of images
Everything must be done to preserve the sense of this movement, the originality of the action that is outlined within it, the new freedom that it has already conquered for everyone. No organisation can today pretend to represent alone the … Continue reading →