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the
8th annual
Chicago Anarchist Film Festival:
Keep
the Quiet Down
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Film
Schedule (Subject
to Change)
Festival Day One
A Little Background Music
Friday May 2, 7pm–10:30pm
Centro
Autonomo, 3460 W Lawrence, Chicago
7pm
The Internationale
directed by Peter Miller | 30 min.
History of revolutionary anthem.
willowpondfilms.com
| review
7:35pm
Selections from Disaster and the Spectacle
Black Star Film Short | 5 min. (excerpt)
Film collages and general mockery of authority
7:45pm
History of Oil
directed by Robert Newman | 45 min.
Stand up comedy with skits from comedian, author and political activist
Robert Newman.
Chicago Premiere
robnewman.com
8:30pm
Intermission (15 min.)
8:45pm
DICK!
Jessica Lawless | 6min.
8:55pm
Simón Radowitzky
directed by 5 pal peso | 20 min.
Mostly silent re-enactment of crucial scenes from the life of anarchist
Simón Radowitzky (1891-1956).
Chicago Premiere
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9:20pm
It Can Happen Here
directed by Jonathon Culp/Satan McNuggit | 47min. | 2007
Documentary explores a mental institution and labor history.
Chicago Premiere: Filmmaker to Attend!
It
Could Happen Here Trailer
Festival
Day Two
Turn It To 11
Saturday 12:30pm–4pm
Centro
Autonomo, 3460 W Lawrence, Chicago
12:30pm
Heavy Metal Drummer
by
Toby MacDonald and Luke Morris | 6min.
It's against the rules, and against the law to play this way but sometimes
you just can’t help it.
12:36pm
Table Bed Chair
directed
by Robert Hack and Jakob Proyer | 30 min.
English and Dutch with English Subtitles
The film combines
insights into the history of the squatter movement and its particularly
well-developed autonomous
structures and practices with a focus on the extraordinary legal situation
in the Netherlands.
1:06pm
Portrait #2: Trojan
directed by Vanessa Redwick | 5 min. | 2006
Power plant demolished to pretty music soundtrack.
Chicago Premiere
odoka.org
1:15pm
Torture
is Us
directed
by Scooter Twomey | 30 min
Scooter Twomey endeavours to set up his own independent torture company
in lieu of the CIA being banned from Europe for extraordinary rendition.
Chicago Premiere
1:45pm
Rise Up!
by local artists Jenny Kendler & Molly Schafer | 3 min.
Animals fight back!
1:50
Intermission (15 min.)
2:05pm
I Can't Help This
directed
by local filmmmaker Charles Mahaffee | 3min.
Three unusual protests
2:10pm
The Day the Country Died
directed by Roy Wallace | 120min.
The rise of anarcho punk, interviews and performance of Crass, SubHumans,
Zounds, Chumbawamba, Conflict, Flux of Pink Indians, Oi Polloi, and
more.
Festival
Day Three
Something More
Sunday 7pm–10:30pm
Centro
Autonomo, 3460 W Lawrence, Chicago
7pm
More
directed
by Mark Osborne | 6 min.
A very sad and sweet claymation about work and consumption.
7:06pm
Lunch Break/Second Take
by P.M.S. Media | 5 min.
A public service announcement about cleaning.
Chicago
Premiere
7:11pm
5 1/2 Roofs: Tony's Cafe
directed by Sepp Brudderman | 17 min. (excerpt)
One of 6 stories about London squats and what happens to them.
Chicago Premiere
myspace.com/roofsfilm
7:30pm
American Storage
directed byAndrew Jay Cohen | 13 min.
Why would anyone take up residence in a storage locker? (and how do
you do it?)
7:45pm
Radio Realidad
by local EN EL OJO Productions | 20 min.
Spanish with English subtitles
Documents the project of a community based radio run by organized campesino
communities that are affiliated to the National Center for Rural Workers
(CNTC in spanish) in Honduras. The CNTC is a national campesino organization
engaged in active struggle for land for the landless farmers, education,
and social justice.
Chicago Premiere: Filmmakers to attend!
8:10pm
Intermission
(15 min.)
8:25pm
The Jena 6
by Big Noise Films | 30 min.
A quiet town of Jena, Louisiana becomes the site of the largest civil
rights demonstration in the South since the 1960s. Narrated by Mumia
Abu-Jamal.
9pm
Made in Secret
by One Tiny Whale | 86min.
Lessons in process and whatnot from some anarchists types inspired by
DIY and Boogie Nights
CAFF
presents films from mainstream sources, rediscovered classics and the
works of filmmakers engaged in social change with an anarchist vision.
Most media distort, discredit and deny anarchists entirely. Anarchists
and their allies respond with a relentless volley of images and stories
that reveal, revive and invigorate a rich anarchist presence in society.
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