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The story of Nestor Makhno through film
From paris-luttes.info … The Makhnovist movement was one of the rare anarchist-communist insurrections in history, if not the only one, capable of holding a territory for a number of years (from 1917 to 1921). The film that follows returns to the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Nestor Makhno, revolution, russian revolution, ukrainian revolution
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Jaime Alekos: Scenes from other refugee worlds … our world
Jaime Aleko, as video journalist working with such media collectives as Periodismo Humano, has covered and denounced the ravages of contemporary capitalism and recorded the many resilient and courageous forms of resistance to it, with a visual language, can one … Continue reading
On the death of a portuguese “revolutionary”: Mario Soares and the inseparability of ideology and reality
For every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History It is a mistake to understand ideology as something … Continue reading
The plunder of tourism: Lisbon
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream of being blind. Paul Virilio Mass urban tourism condemns a city to branding, a product to be consumed, a spectacle to … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, Left Hand Rotation Collective, portugal, tourism
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A poet of movement: For Pierre Etaix
A clown is a poet in action. He is the story which he enacts. The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves. Joy is like a river: it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this is the message which the … Continue reading
For Abbas Kiarostami: The singular beauty of truth, or the illusion of being
No artist, in any country, is free. S/he is a living contestation. Pier Paolo Pasolini The films of Abbas Kiarostami are now complete. With Kiarostami’s death this last July 4th, the worlds of his creation are now fixed, at least … Continue reading
No Borders: Social Struggles Across the U.S.A.
We share below the trailer to, and the first episode, of an 11 part series “No Borders: Social Struggles Across the USA” by the international anarchist media team, Sur Negro Productions, in collaboration with members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra and … Continue reading
I struggle therefore I am: Yannis Youlountas
In cinematographic chronicles, Yannis Youlantis tells stories of resistance and struggle in greece and spain. The virtue and beauty of his films is the beauty of those who create autonomy against those who reduce the many to slavery. Whether it be in … Continue reading
For Jacques Rivette
Quel est le but du cinéma? Que le monde réel, tel qu’offert sur l’écran, soit aussi une idée du monde. Il faut voir le monde comme une idée, il faut le penser comme concret. Jacques Rivette We are all rehearsing parts … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Jacques Rivette
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Ni dieu ni maitre: A history of anarchism
A documentary film by Tancrède Ramonet tells the story of anarchism from the Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s What is Property? (1840) to the fall of Barcelona at the end of the spanish revolution/civil war (1939). Whatever historical-political lacunae one may find in … Continue reading →