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Film Festival Lineup for the Boston Anarchist Bookfair |
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by Boston IMC
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29 Oct 2012
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The upcoming Boston Anarchist Bookfair will include a two-day film festival. Films will be shown from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM Saturday and Sunday November 10th and 11th at Simmons College. |
SATURDAY
11am- 12:00 Maggots and Men (53 mins) A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state
12:15 -1:55 What to Do in Case of Fire (100 mins) In the 1980's, they were on the barricades together. Twenty years later, they've gone their separate ways - until something unexpected brings them together again. Packed with action, hilarity and even romance, this is an overlooked gem.
2:15-2:35 Roses on my Table (19 mins) A small portrait of the Richmond, Va based Wingnut Anarchist Collective between February and August of 2011.
2:45 -4:15 678 (100 mins) Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
4:45-5:05 Cops (19 mins) Buster Keaton is accidentally considered an anarchist by cops.
5:30-6:30 De Toda La Vida (55 mins) To counter sexism among revolutionaries in the Spanish Civil War the Anarcha-Feminist group the Muheres Libres(Free Women) was formed. This film, made in 1987, is a series of interviews with surviving members of the group. An important oral history of an inspiring group of anarchist women.
SUNDAY
11-1 Battle of Algiers (120 mins) Gillo Pontecorvo’s epic depiction of the Algerian revolution.
1:20-3:05 - Antifa-Chasseurs de Skins (105 mins) A documentary of the antifascist movement in France. Chasseurs de Skins means 'Skinhead Hunters'.
3:20-4:40 - We shall remain [Wounded Knee] (76 mins) The story of the American Indian Movement's occupation of Wounded Knee.
4:50-6:23 Better This World (93 mins) The story of two young anarchists who were entrapped by an FBI informant at the 2008 RNC. |
See also:
http://bostonanarchistbookfair.org
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