TUESDAY, JUNE 13 – 7PM with Newsreel members in attendance
(This event is $10.)
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Join us on June 13 for a screening of collectively made films from 1968-1980, presented by Giulia Gabrielli and Matt Peterson, based on their research and interviews with the Newsreel collective (1967-1972), a survey of politically engaged and collaboratively produced international cinema.
Featuring rarely screened works by Newsreel, Collectif Mohamed, IDHEC Student Collective, Elio Petri and Italian Filmmakers Committee Against Repression, the screening is part of a larger series which will also take place at Maysles Cinema in Harlem with Newsreel Shorts on June 22.
MAKE OUT
dir. Newsreel, 1970
5 mins. United States.
As a young couple make out in a car, we hear the woman’s stream of consciousness thoughts. She worries about her reputation and whether he’ll try to “go all the way.” This film is best used with discussions and/or materials about date rape.
THREE HYPOTHESES ON GUISEPPE PINELLI’S DEATH
dir. Elio Petri, 1970
11 mins. Italy.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Some actors, led by Gian Maria Volonté, enact the three different versions that the police provided on the voluntary or accidental fall of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli.
PIG POWER
dir. Newsreel, 1968
4 mins. United States.
As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley’s thesis that the police are there “to preserve disorder”.
THEY KILLED KADER
(ILS ONT TUE KADER)
dir. Collectif Mohamed, 1980
21 mins. France.
In French with English subtitles.
After the death of a young man from Vitry, killed by a building guard, the media come to the housing estate to do a report and get images from the Collective. A film that raises many questions about the role of the media in the suburbs, and the need to produce images oneself.
LINCOLN HOSPITAL
dir. Newsreel, 1970
11 mins. United States.
When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.
RETURN TO WORK AT THE WONDER FACTORY
dirs. Jacques Willemont, Pierre Bonneau, Liane Estiez, Roland Chicheportiche, 1968
10 min. France.
In French with English subtitles.
In June 1968, after the Grenelle Agreements, work resumed at the Wonder factories in Saint-Ouen, in the northern suburbs of Paris. In the midst of an essentially male group, a young female worker refused to go back to work.
THE CASE AGAINST LINCOLN CENTER
dir. Newsreel, 1968
12 min. United States.
More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony. This film examines the patrons of the art-industrial complex (corporations and wealthy families) and the culture displayed there. Juxtaposing the atmosphere of Lincoln Center with the vibrant street culture of a displaced neighborhood, the film correctly predicts the process by which the West Side was to be turned into a high-rent area for the upper middle class.
GIULIA GABRIELLI is an artist, researcher, assistant and director from the Mediterranean. She tries to interrupt work. With what they called a life. Giulia is involved in experiments in and on (dis)organizing communal forms of sociality and encounter. She considers scripts and artistic conventions as sometimes helpful devices.
MATT PETERSON is an organizer at Woodbine, an experimental space in New York City. He directed the documentary features SCENES FROM A REVOLT SUSTAINED (2014) and SPACES OF EXCEPTION (2018), and co-edited the books In the Name of the People (2018), The Mohawk Warrior Society (2022) and The Reservoir (2022). Since 2014 he has collaborated with Malek Rasamny on “The Native and the Refugee”, a multimedia documentary project on American Indian reservations and Palestinian refugee camps.
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