Category Archives: Film

A cinema of resistance: René Vautier

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Not so long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives.  The former had the Word; the others had the use of it. … It came to an end; … Continue reading →

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A cinema a hundred years young: Charlie Chaplin

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Chaplin made his first appearance in cinema in 1914, in the film Making a Living.  What followed would be the work of one of the most creative artists of the last century; a creativity not only to be understood in … Continue reading →

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Gezi park and beyond: Resonances of rebellion

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

(Yüksel Arslan) From the Global Uprisings news/video collective, a new documentary on political protest in turkey, since the Gezi Park commune …

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Unrepresentable stories: Films of resistance

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

As long as the lions do not have their own historians, the stories of hunting will continue to glorify the hunter. African proverb Spain’s public prosecutor has recently asked for cumulative legal punishment of up to 74 years and 3 … Continue reading →

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The artistic disobedience of Nina Paley: For Gaza

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Calling both a grassy field and ideas a “commons” is interesting, because one of them, the grassy field, is tangible and scarce, whereas the other one is not actually limited. A lot of the conversation that happens around imaginary property … Continue reading →

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Pieces of Madrid

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

The protest, dissidence and creativity of those who rebel in spain against State-Capital continues to weave together forms of life at the margins of/in opposition to domination.  At the heart of all that 15M and parallel movements in the country … Continue reading →

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Tales of working class heros: Salt of the earth

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

… from libcom.org: This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centres on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc … Continue reading →

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Witnessing our times: Film from Gezi

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement. I approach and pull away from … Continue reading →

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Nuit et Brouillard: For Alain Resnais

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

In memory of Alain Resnais who died this last March the 3rd … In 1933, Walter Benjamin could write of the technology of war unleashed upon those who fought during WWI, that it destroyed human experience, the very thing which … Continue reading →

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The Assault

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Neoliberalism: the transfer of social wealth to private hand, enforced by the State.  The lie of an expansion of free markets and free human economic activity is belied by State enforced appropriations of commons, created over generations, for private gain … Continue reading →

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