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   

Feb 24: Cuba: An African Odyssey (Part 1) Dir. Jihan El Tahri, 2006

March 10: Special Event: Guest Speaker Eric Cheyfitz, author of The Disinformation Age, forthcoming 2017

March 24: Cuba: An African Odyssey (Part 2) Dir. Jihan El Tahri, 2006

April 7: Concerning Violence Dir. Göran Olsson, 2014

April 21: The Murder of Fred Hampton Dir. Howard Alk, 1971

May 5: Vivir La Utopía (Living Utopia) Dir. Juan Gamero, 1977

Sunday, June 18; 6pm: How to Survive a Plague Dir. David France, 2012. Discussant: Mike Dimpfl

Sunday, July 9; 6pm: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Dir. Grace Lee, 2014

Sunday, August 13; 6pm: Cabralista Dir Ana Lucia Ramos Lisboa, 2005

and continuing thereafter…