BURNING FRAME: A MONTHLY ANARCHIST FILM SERIES

REBELLIOUS CITY
Dir. Willy Lindwer, 80 min.
Netherlands, 2015.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 – 7:30 PM

A recent, under-seen documentary, chronicling the Provo movement, a loose-knit collection of Dutch radicals and artists who captured the popular imagination and spurred change with boldly confrontational happenings. Featuring the likes of Cor Jaring, Roel van Duijn, Saar Stolk, Luud Schimmelpennink, Hans Metz, Bernhard de Vries, Irene van de Weetering, and Robert Jasper Grootveld, as they talk about the creative, playful and inspiring Sixties and the rise and fall of the Provo Movement.

THE TROUBLEMAKERS
dir. Robert Manchover, 50 min.
USA, 1966.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 – 10 PM

In the late 60s, the Newark Community Union Project was created as a bloc within the Students for a Democratic Society. Their aim was to engage with the inner-city black community in Newark. The result is an unflinchingly honest film about the difficulties of community organizing, particularly attempts to engage across divides of race and class. Despite the group’s work to overcome these hurdles, the government does not bend to the community’s small demands — demonstrating the utter futility that is engaging with government bureaucracy. Produced with involvement from the late Robert Kramer.

screening with:
COINTELPRO: THE FBI’S WAR ON BLACK AMERICA
dir. Denis Mueller and Deb Ellis, 53 min.
USA, 1989

A clear-eyed run through of how the U.S. Government conspired to violently quell the Black Power movement.

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BURNING FRAME: A MONTHLY ANARCHIST FILM SERIES

CALLING ALL RADICAL LEFTISTS! Come join us for a welcome respite from endless organizing work. The past two years have been a whirlwind: exhausting, invigorating, and ever ripe with potential. It can be difficult to find moments of pause and reflection when in the thick of it. Especially when “it” refers to the rise of fascism on a global scale with any number of future cataclysms hovering just past the horizon. But we digress.

The films in this series (presented as double-features) have been specially chosen by anarchists for anarchists, but really anyone far left-of-center in their beliefs and actions will find much to identify with and mull over. Come for the great works of radical political filmmaking, stay for the generative discussions, or even just to commiserate about how little has fundamentally changed over the past 50 years (the span of time which the films in this series will cover). The overriding hope is that these films, and their authentic representations of successes, defeats, and the messy work of direct action will help grant us the willpower and imagination to break through cycles of repeated structures.

To butcher the title of a great film for the sake of a mildly applicable pun: “Throw away your dogma, rally in the cinema.”