Ongoing Film Series

A Brief History of Resistance

With each passing year it becomes increasingly evident that we are entering a period of sustained social instability and institutional decomposition. It is also evident that we, the would-be oppositional movements in our society, have lost a sense what we are struggling against, of how to struggle, and what to struggle for. As part of a practice to recuperate our capacity to think our own struggle today, we present the films in this series, which will revisit both well-known and often ignored emancipatory struggles of the past and present, from Lucio Cabañas to the Black Panthers, from the Lacandón Jungle to contemporary Kurdistan. We will examine these movements and discuss their relevance for rebuilding our own vision of struggle in the here and now.

Feb 10: Palante! Siempre Palante! Dir. Iris Morales, 1996