| 6
nights at 2 locations
2010
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Check
here for SunTimes recent review of the Fest!
Celebrate with us,
as the 10th Annual Chicago Anarchist Film
Festival commemorates its decennial anniversary of insurrectionary
cinema with six nights of films and much more! This
year's festival is twice as big with more to think about! Happy Birthday
CAFF!
CAFF invites anarchists,
anti-authoritarians, the anarcho-friendly and the anarcho-curious to experience
radical cinema from around the world with features, shorts, documentaries,
animation, and found footage. Anarchist films cross boundaries, take risks,
and subvert passivity. With this year’s theme, Crossing
Boundaries, CAFF seeks to project voices that transcend
borders and cultures — voices that do not normally get heard. That
said, viewers will also find humor, silliness and fun in the offerings.
With several More Than Film
presentations/workshops, the curatorial team has re-imagined the film
fest as more than "seats facing a screen"— we also seek
to engage the audience in dialogue with filmmakers and activists. In honor
of our decade of existence, we will also be featuring Circle-A-Archives
selections from throughout the festival’s history
that showcase not only our favorites, but also important moments in politics
and culture.
2010
Online Schedule | Download
Program (pdf)
Donation
of $5–10 each night, sliding scale
(No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds)
Schedule
subject to change. Download
Full Schedule (pdf)
Week
One:
Wed May 5 | Fri
May 7 | Sat
May 8
| Check
out the Week Two lineup!
NNWAC,
St. Paul’s Cultural Center
2215 W North Ave
Donation
of $5–10 each night, sliding scale
(No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds)
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Wed May 5
7pm-10pm
(doors open at 6:30pm)
OPENING NIGHT: Radical Cheese (Filmmakers
Present!)
2215
W North Avenue
7pm-8:15pm
Radical Jesters (70m, 2008) Blurring the line between
reality and fiction.
Director Tim Jackson present for Q & A.
8:15pm-8:30pm
Break
8:30pm-10pm
From
the Circle-A-Archives, 2001 festival:
Grilled Cheese Sandwich (90m) A much-loved
anarchist comedy, is the feature film of the night. Director
Jonathan Culp present for Q & A.
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Fri May 7
7pm-10pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
CROSSING
BOUNDARIES: Voz del Raiz/Voices from the Root,
a look at the resistance from our neighbors to the south
2215
W North Avenue
7pm-7:30pm
Brazilian Shorts
From Bucaneiro
Producoes:
Primeiro
de Maio 2009 No RJ (May Day, 2009 in Rio de Janeiro State)
(3m, 2009, Bucaneiro Producoes) A May Day celebration and protest
at the Goyacazes sugar mill and plantation in rural RJ state. Safer
working conditions are demanded.
Mulheres
Camponesas Na Luta Contra O Agronegocio E Contra A Violêcia
(Woman Farmworkers Against Agribusiness and Violence)
(2m 40s, 2010, Bucaneiro Producoes) Workers demonstrate
for the rights of female farmworkers and highlight the dangerous working
conditions they face.
Manifesto
Contra As Monoculturas E O Deserto Verde (Protest Against Monoculture
and for Small-scale Farming) (5m 50s, 2008, Bucaneiro Producoes)
At the doors of Brazil's National Bank of Economic and Social Development
(BNDES), rural workers demand loans for family farmers.
O Punk
Morreu? (Is Punk Dead?) (18m, 2008,
Director: Marina Knup, Die.God, Darius Bizarres and Anarchopunk Movement
from São Paulo) Reflections on the generations-old question
7:30pm-8:15pm
Alexy Lanza & Vicky Cervantes of Producciones EN EL OJO
give a video presentation and talk about the recent Honduran coup and
the grass-roots resistance
8:15pm-8:30pm
Break
8:30pm-9:20pm
City of Favelas (51m, 2010, Maike Pricelius/ Adrian
Mengay) A documentary on Favelas, (Brazilian Portuguese
for slum) and their struggle for the 'right to the city' in Brazil.
9:20pm-9:35pm
Break
9:35pm-10pm
From the Circle-A-Archives, 2000 festival:
Mas Alla
de Los Gritos (Beyond the Screams) (28m,
1999, Martin Sorrondeguy) A first-hand documentary about the history
of Latino punk in Chicago. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll
pogo.
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Sat May 8
7pm-10pm
(doors open at 6:30pm)
2215
W North Avenue
7pm-7:45pm
From
the Circle-A-Archives, 2003 festival:
Emma Goldman, the Anarchist Guest (42m, 2004, Coleman Romalis)
Anarchist Emma Goldman is deported from the U.S. but eventually finds
a home in Toronto, Canada in her last days.
7:45pm-8:15pm
Just
added! Satan MacNuggit Shorts (Jonathan Culp)
Outside of
their Homes (10m, 2008, Bella)
This is a documentary interpretes the motives and actions of the animal
rights community in Salt Lake City, Utah in the face of increasing government
repression. Since the making of this film, one vivisector from the University
of Utah has quit (and so as not to eschew the broader context mink have
been released), 15 charged with targeted residential picketing, two charged
with AETAs and two subpoenad to grand juries.
8:15pm-8:30pm
Break
8:30pm-9:30pm
Maggots and Men (2009, Cary Cronenwett) A utopian re-visioning
of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast
of over 100 transgender actors. Starring: Travis Clough, Scout Festa,
Stormy Henry Knight.
Schedule
subject to change. Download
full Schedule (pdf)
Week
Two: Fri
May 14 | Sat
May 15 | Sun
May 16 | Check out the Week One lineup!
No
Exit Café
6970 North Glenwood
Saturday
Only! 10pm-1am
10th Anniversary Birthday After-Party
Donation
of $5–10 each night, sliding scale
(No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds)
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Fri May 14
5pm-6:30pm
More Than Film events
7pm-10pm Films
UNEMBEDDED
6970 North Glenwood
5pm-6:30pm
More Than Film event:
Presentation on Tactical Media's role in mass mobilizations
in the information age. Tactical media can be defined as the
appropriation of mass media in order to oppose and criticize a target
that often occupies a certain position of power
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7pm-7:40pm
Resist!
(40m) A Chicago Indymedia-produced documentary about the aftermath
and legal struggle of the RNC struggle in the Twin Cities
We're Getting
Ready (for Court) A funny PSA by the RNC eight about what happens
after the protest leaves town. Set to the tune of Blondie.
7:40pm-8pm
UFF (13m) A film from the Czech Republic, showcasing
an artists group from Prague performance highlighting police surveillance
through the use of cell phone cards.
8pm-8:30pm
The Potentiality of Storming Heaven (28m) An anarchist
documentary of the Greek uprising of 2008.
8:30pm-8:45pm
Break
8:45pm-8:50pm
Danger Dead End (Ryan Alexander Neily) A scifi operetta
set in a steampunk universe. The reused clip is a scene from Waterfront
1941, a movie that is in the Public Domain, ergo restriction free.
8:50pm-9:50pm
500 Miles To Babylon: A Film About Iraq Under U.S. Occupation
(60m,David Martinez)
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Sat May 15
5pm-6:30pm
More Than Film events
7pm-10pm Films
10pm-1am
10th Anniversary Birthday After-Party
IF
I CAN'T HAVE FUN, I DON'T WANT TO BE IN YOUR REVOLUTION
6970 North Glenwood
5pm-6:30pm
More Than Film event: David
Meyers of On The Fly Farm and Resistance Coffee presents Café Chicago—Revitalizing
Revolutionary Working Class Culture with an Economic Engine and Damn Good
Coffee
7pm-7:30pm
Who's Emma (28m)
Rise and fall of a Toronto infoshop, but could also be the story
of Chicago's A-Zone.
7:30pm-8pm
Anarchist Filmaker Shorts/Projects (30m)
As part of the 10th anniversary, CAFF asked anarchist filmmaker contributors
from past and present festivals to submit 10 questions they would like
to ask another anarchist filmmaker. We exchanged these questions amongst
them. These shorts are their responses to this exchange of questions.
Look for this on our media after the festival is over!
7:30pm-8:15pm
Break
8:15pm-9:30pm
Assorted
Shorts
Love It or
Leave It: A Patriotic Passion Play (7m, Bettina Escauriza/Dara
Greenwald) Two friends discover something shocking about each other.
Reproduction
Prohibited (5m, Jonathan Culp) A short feature a montage
of homo-erotic images full of texture, color and sex.
More that
you can chew (Navmachine — local filmmaker) A
self-absorbed businessman realizes all too late what real problems are.
Bash Street
Kids (5m, Nov 2007) Short from Schnews,
a British radical news video group.
Downfall
(5m, 2009, YaBasta) Hitler runs security during the G20 in
Pittsburgh.
From
the Circle-A-Archives:
Crowd Bites Wolf (23m, 2000, Guerrilavision)A humorous
look at the 2000 Prague G8 protests. Remember when there was a giant anti-globalization
movement?
Jam Session
(4 min, Federico Iris Osmo Tinelli)
From
the Circle-A-Archives, 2008 festival:
Rise Up (5m, Molly Schafer and Jenny Kendler) Our favorite
movie about animals.
Kamp
(3:37m, Paul Alvarez) A stop motion animation piece about overcoming
your chains
Star Wars,
the Environmental Version (5m, Frank Lopez) A hilarious
comparison of Star Wars and the environmental movement featuring Derek
Jensen.
And Finally
(3m, March 2009) Short from Schnews,
a British radical news video group.
10pm-1am
10 birthday after-party
with music featuring DJ Ang.G!
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Sun May 16
5pm-6:30pm
More Than Film events
7pm-10pm Films
CROSSING
BORDERS: Images of Displacement
6970 N Glenwood
Avenue
5pm-6:30pm
More Than Film event: Jeff
Pickert of Palestine Solidarity Group gives a presentation about the occupation
of Palestine and his work and time there.
7pm-8pm
From the Circle-A-Archives, 2009 festival:
Enraged (56m, 2008, Eyal Eithcowich, CAFF 2009) Enraged
follows four Jewish-Israeli members of Anarchist Against the Wall activists
who refuse to be silent while the occupation continues. They bring food
in Palestinian villages under curfew, tear down parts of the separation
barrier, and serve as human shields for Palestinian demonstrators. IN
Israel they are ostracized; in Palestine they are beaten, sprayed with
tear-gas and shot at with rubber-coated bullets.
 
8pm-8:30pm
In the Footsteps of Yellow Woman (26m, Outta Your Backpack
Media) A film by a 13 year-old Navajo filmmaker from Arizona who
revisits her family history including her ancestors’ relocation.
8:30pm-8:45pm
Additional films from Outta Your Backpack Media, an indigenous youth media
workshop.
8:45pm-10:15pm
From
the Circle-A-Archives, 2008 festival:
History of Oil (45m, Robert Newman) What's
wrong with oil? Stand up anarchist-comedy from comedian, author and political
activist Robert Newman.
From
the Circle-A-Archives, 2002 festival:
Paint it Black: Anarchism, Urban Uprising, and the
Mainstream News Media. (50m, Jessica Lawless) What does
it mean when white anarchists don black gear and other questions reflected
upon.
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