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SATURDAY 4/15 7PM RITZ FIVE We are hosting a screening and Q&A for the Philly opening weekend of HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE with @neonrated, @ArielaBarer (writer/actor) and Daniel Garber (editor) – we could not be more fucking psyched for this.
The screening is open to the public but we have some free tix available – email us at cinema.philly@gmail.com for more info!!!
from Making Worlds Books
Join us on 3/30 for a benefit film screening and discussion of Riotsville, USA.
Advance registration is encouraged, please RSVP here.
The fight in Atlanta against “Cop City” is heating up. The Autonomous South Philly Cinema Association is hosting a benefit screening of Riotsville, USA (2022, 91 mins) to raise funds for mounting legal expenses. Riotsville, USA takes its name from the mock cities built by the U.S. government in the late 1960s to train police and military in repressive techniques to throttle uprisings, much as Cop City hopes to do — unless the struggle against it is victorious.
from Making Worlds Books
IF A TREE FALLS is a documentary looking at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America’s ‘number one domestic terrorist threat.’ The documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan, an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The film examines larger questions about environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.
The police killing of Manuel Teranat / Tortuguita and repression of forest defenders in Atlanta / Cop City this month adds dire weight to our ability to understand ecological defense struggles on their own terms, to understand the elements of repression and state power that seek to discredit, disrupt, and disempower ecodefense movements and separate them from wider bases of popular support. In the process, state violence intensifies and the need for unified support and solidarity is crucial.
This event is fundraising effort in support of ATL Solidarity Fund to help support frontliners in this moment.
Advance registration suggested (free and by donation) to help us host public events safely in a time of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other public health stresses on our communities. Click here to register.
Submission
Screening of Animal People (2019)
Monday January 9
7PM
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In conjunction with the Weekend of Solidarity to Stop Cop City. Animal People (97mins) is a documentary about animal liberation activists using innovative strategies. Discussion to follow about local land struggles.
from Making World Books
Making Worlds Book Film Screening, Book Launch, and Discussion: For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis [Philadelphia launch]
We must take antifascism as a major imperative of movements for social change. For Antifascist Futures takes seriously what is new in this moment of politics, exploring what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the twenty-first century authoritarian convergence by centering the material and speculative labor of antifascist and antiracist social movement coalitions. By focusing on the long history of Black and Brown antifascist resistance that has been overlooked in both recent conversations about racial justice as well as antifascist resistance, the essays, interviews, and documents included here make clear how racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule.
Linking a deep engagement, both scholarly and practical, of racial justice movements with an antifascist frame, and a global analysis of capitalism, the editors and contributors of For Antifascist Futures assemble a powerful toolbox for our struggles.
Registration required, click here.
The evening starts with a screening of Mangrove School (34 mins, 2022), directed by Filipa César and Sónia Vaz Borges.
5pm: Film screening
Mangrove School film (34 min, créole guinéen, coul, 2022) Dir. Filipa César and Sónia Vaz Borges
6pm: For Antifascist Futures book discussion & panel
Submission
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from Iffy Books
On June 16 we’re hosting a free screening of the documentary Crass: There is No Authority But Yourself (2006), directed by Alexander Oey. Hope to see you there!
From Wikipedia:
> There is No Authority But Yourself is a Dutch film directed by Alexander Oey documenting the history of anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archive footage of the band and interviews with former members Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher. As well as reflecting on the band’s past the film focusses on their current activities, and includes footage of Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at the Vortex jazz club in Hackney, a compost toilet building workshop and a permaculture course held at Dial House in the spring of 2006.
from Iffy Books
On Friday, June 10 at 7PM we’re screening Resist Climate Inaction, a 12-minute film from Blockade Australia that everyone should see.
This event is free! We’ll have a discussion after the screening for anyone who wants to hang out and chat.
from Iffy Books
On Friday, June 24 at 7PM we’re screening Resist Climate Inaction, a 12-minute film from Blockade Australia that everyone should see.
This event is free! We’ll have a discussion after the screening for anyone who wants to hang out and chat.
From Viscera
This month we’ll be watching Adam Curtis’s three part documentary, The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? from (dusts off label) 2007! Curtis examines positive versus negative freedom with examples ranging from the Austrian school of economics to R.D. Laing and anti-psychiatry to neoliberalism and the occupation of Iraq.
If you’ve never watched an Adam Curtis feature you’re in for a treat!
We’ll be meeting in Clark Park on Sunday, November 28th, from 1-3 barring us finding somewhere congenial and heated – meet near the chess tables.
You can find the documentary on YouTube (or elsewhere) – each part is one hour, and we’ll be discussing all three!
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A whole week of black revolutionary cinema programming for the unhoused comrades at James Talib Dean encampment in Philly – come through and watch these great movies! And support the camp’s demands for housing and freedom from the police #blacklivesmatter
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Wednesdays @ 7PM, cinéSPEAK hosts an online watch party, featuring incredible cinematic works from around the world to raise $ for organizations doing vital work in our region and beyond.
THIS WEEK: HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (2016) –a brilliantly comedic coming-of-age x buddy adventure film from Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi
**now streaming on Kanopy — see below for instructions**
THIS WEEK’S FEATURED ORG: Food Not Bombs Solidarity they ‘cook for, serve/share food, work with and support homeless or hungry people; save and use food that the capitalist system regards only as a commodity; food that would be otherwise discarded.’
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LOGISTICS:
DATE: WEDNESDAY APRIL 15, 2020
ZOOM PARTY LIVE @ 7PM **must register to receive link**
FILM BEGINS @ 7:30PM
POST-FILM ZOOM HANG to-follow
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ADMISSION: FREE!
**As you’re able, PLEASE $UPPORT by DONATING directly to Food Not Bombs Solidarity–>
CashApp: $FNBSolidarity
PayPal: FNBSolidarity@protonmail.com
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TO PARTICIPATE:
You will need to:
1. Activate your Kanopy account–>
**FREE** with Philadelphia Free Library card https://freelibrary.kanopy.com
**Don’t have your physical library card? Look it up here–> https://catalog.freelibrary.org/MyResearch/ForgotCard
2. Decide how you will watch–>
**If you’re watching from your computer, follow this URL–> https://freelibrary.kanopy.com/video/hunt-wilderpeople-0
**If you’re watching on Apple tv, Roku, Amazon Fire Stick or other mobile device, search for and download the Kanopy app.
3. Register for the event–> via ticket link on this page
4. Grab your movie snacks/drinks + come hang!
We will:
1. Email the Zoom link to all registered guests @ 6:15PM
2. Start the Zoom party @ 7PM
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ABOUT THE FILM:
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Written & Directed by: Taika Waititi
Running Time: 1hr 41 min
A boy (Julian Dennison) and his foster father (Sam Neill) become the subjects of a manhunt after they get stranded in the New Zealand wilderness.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICv8QH3oM0
**CONTENT WARNING: fatphobic humor, animal death (with graphic images of blood), grief around parental death and a joke with pedophilic innuendo
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During this week’s open hours, we are going to be watching short films about the Unistʼotʼen Camp.
To our north, this month has witnessed an explosion of actions intended to “shut down Canada” with blockades of rail lines cancelling passenger service trains across the country and paralyzing freight shipment. In the cities, protests have blocked streets, highways, and bridges. The present wave of resistance can be traced to the Unistʼotʼen camp’s decade-long battle against proposed pipelines in unceded Wetʼsuwetʼen territory. We will watch films and discuss this history to get a clearer picture of what has been happening.
For more information on recent events: https://itsgoingdown.org/from-sea-to-sea-train-blockades-colonialism-and-canadian-rail-history/
3:00 open hours
4:00 films
[February 21 3-6pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]
