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Chicago Anarchist Film Festival Presents our

Free Film Night*

Wednesday
The 5th of November
4:30pm–9pm
Jane Addams Hull House Museum annex
800 South Halsted Street
(off the Halsted bus and the UIC Halsted stop on the Blue Line at the edge of the UIC campus)

The Free Film Night features some of the best of the festival!
Check back for for Free Film Night schedule.

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*Participate in the Book Drop for Midwest Books to Prisoners: Bring Donated Books to the November 5th Free Film Night!

Midwest Books to Prisoners (MWBTP) sends reading materials to people in prison. Volunteers collect book donations, read letters, pack packages and solicit donations for postage. Through sending books, MWBTP hopes to assist inmates in educating, entertaining and empowering themselves. MWBTP relies donated books and their only financial burden is postage (stamps are always welcome).

Films
Lineup subject to change.
Schedule to come.


4:30pm—Beyond the Screams
(by Martín Sorrondeguy, 1999, 30 min)
Punk's not dead. A far reaching documentary on Latino punk rock, a "culture within a subculture". Interviews and live footage show the breadth of Latinos in punk and reveal the history of the space that they made for themselves. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll pogo. 2000 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.


5pm—Frog in the Well
(by Cervando David Martinez, 2001, 30 min)
The biography of Ho-Kun Yuen, a Chinese immigrant to San Francisco in 1949. Yuen thoroughly documented the social movements of the Bay Area for over three decades. His archive and the philosophy behind it remained almost unknown until his death in 1997.
2001 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.

15min break

5:45pm—Paint It Black: Anarchism, Urban Uprising and The Mainstream News Media
(by Jessica Lawless, 2002, 50 min)
Film about the portrayal of anarchists in the corporate media. 2002 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.

6:40pm—Radio Campesino
(by Victoria Cervantes, 2003, 12 min)
An video about setting up a radio station in Honduras by local filmmaker.
2003 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.

6:55pm—Selected Satan MacNuggit Short(s)
(Captain Do-Gooder, 6min, P Grrrl, 5 min, Death mask. 5min,
) Satan McNuggit has contributed many films to the festival over the years, both feature length and shorts — CAFF is highlighting some shorts at the Free Film Night. 2005 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.

15min break


7:15pm—Preacher With an Unknown God
(by Rob Van Alkemade, 2005, 18 min) This Sundance 2006 award-winner follows anti-corporate activist/performance artist Reverend Billy and his Church-of-Stop-Shopping as they exorcize big box stores and cash registers across the country. 2006 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival


7:40pm—Gender Play
(by Philipe Lonestar, 2004, 10 min)
a spirited Compilation on what gender and sexuality mean to those who challenge it’s social constructs. 2007 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.

7:40pm— a selection from Gunpowder Plot doc in honor of the 5th of November (Offers some background on Guy Fawkes day). 10 min.

15min break

8:00pm—Table Bed Chair
(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.

8:30pm—Rise Up!
(by local artists Jenny Kendler & Molly Schafer, 3 min) Animals fight back!


8:33pm— Torture is Us

(by Scooter Twomey, 2007, 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. Seriously Funny.
Premiered at the 2008 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival and voted best of the fest!
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