Category Archives: Film

La vie appelle la vie: The animated poetry of Frédéric Back

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Libérer la vie, libérer la vie des prisons … c’est ça resister. Gilles Deleuze, Abécédaire  Art for me is just a natural reaction. I just try to share this reaction to what I love, and want to share. The pleasure is … Continue reading →

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From Gazi to Gezi – a stone’s throw away

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

A new film on the Gezi uprising by Ross Domoney captures the poetry behind a rebellion; the art of resistance and the power of the spoken word.

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Borderland images: Between Melilla and Morocco

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Borders striate land, dividing, segregating, displacing. As instruments of sovereignty, they are essential to delineating the exception that defines political power. As instruments for fixing the flows of labour, they enable exploitation. For those who refuse both, movement, migration, is … Continue reading →

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An anarchist cinema: Jean Vigo

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Freedom is lived in the body.  And the cinema of Jean Vigo is a celebration of that freedom.  In À propos de Nice, Vigo’s first film, the dancers of Carnival are contrasted with the self-conscious and tedious bodies of bourgeois … Continue reading →

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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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