Showing posts with label anarchist movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anarchist movies. Show all posts

Saturday, May 15, 2010


CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-MONTRÉAL:
SUMMERHILL- THE MOVIE:
From the time of the Spanish Modern School Movement and its French equivalents in the early 20th century the idea of "free schools" has been on a low boil in various countries. One of the experiments that lasted was the English Summerhill School. Next Thursday, May 20, there will be a screening of the film about this unique experiment. Here's the promo.
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Film Screening: SUMMERHILL,
a drama about the 70-year radical free school
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:40pm
Location: de Seve Cinema
Street: 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
City/Town: Montreal, QC


Description.
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As part of the Festival of Anarchy, the Montreal Rad School presents:

SUMMERHILL: a feature drama film based on the long-standing Summerhill radical free school

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 7pm
At the De Sève Cinema
1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
(metro Guy-Concordia)

FREE! Donations appreciated.
Welcome to all. Wheelchair accessible.
Childcare available on site.
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As part of the Festival of Anarchy, the Montreal Rad School presents films highlighting the education and miseducation of children and youth:

On THURSDAY, MAY 20 we present SUMMERHILL (UK, 2008, 100 minutes), a feature drama film based on the long-standing Summerhill radical free school. From the film synopsis: “Imagine a school where you don't have to go to lessons, you make all the rules yourself and climbing trees and building boats are definitely part of the curriculum. That school exists. It's called Summerhill and it has been there for 70 years. Maddy and Ryan attend Summerhill and find it changes them in ways they would never imagine. But then when inspectors decide the school must close, Maddy and Ryan join forces with staff and pupils in a battle that goes to the very heart of the Government. Based on a true story, Summerhill is an enchanting drama that will captivate everyone.”


Presented by the Rad School of Montreal: At the Rad School, children freely explore their interests, play, learn, live and participate in a democratic community. Children are empowered to be self-directed, socially-conscious, lifelong learners. Adults provide mentoring, facilitate activities, learn and play!

INFO: 514-848-7583 – montreal@ecolelibre-freeschool.org


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Dans le cadre du Festival du l’Anarchie, L’École Libre Radical de Montréal présente:

SUMMERHILL: une fiction basée sur des faits réels, racontant le quotidien des enfants en liberté dans cette célèbre école libre existant depuis plus de 70 ans

JEUDI le 20 mai à 19h
Cinema de Sève
1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
(métro Guy-Concordia)

GRATUIT! Bienvenue à tous et toutes.
Accessible aux fauteuils roulants.
Un service de garde des enfants sur place.
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Jeudi le 20 mai, le film « SUMMERHILL » (v.o.a.) une fiction basée sur des faits réels, racontant le quotidien des enfants en liberté dans cette célèbre école libre existant depuis plus de 70 ans.


Présenté par l’École Radicale de Montréal: A l’École Libre Radicale les enfants sont libres d’explorer de jouer et d’apprendre a leurs rythmes, ils vivent et sont membres a part entière d’une communauté démocratique. Les enfants apprennent ensemble à s’auto-diriger, à développer leurs consciences sociales et leurs confiances en leurs capacités d’apprentissage. Les adultes agissent à titre de mentor, facilitent des activités apprennent et s’amusent!

INFO: 514-848-7583 – montreal@ecolelibre-freeschool.org

Tuesday, February 10, 2009


INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-RUSSIA:
ECOLOGICAL PROTEST IN RUSSIA MOVIE:
The following is an announcement from the English language section of the Russian anarchist news site Avtonom. The following has been slightly edited for English grammar.
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Unique movie on radical ecological protest in Russia available as a torrent:
No Pasaran!
Director, producer, researcher and cinematographer: Vadim Likhachyov
Length: 73 min.
Russia, 2006
The movie "No Pasaran!" documents environmental protest campaign in the city of Azov, Russia in the summer of 2003. Inhabitants of Azov, together with activists and anarchists of Autonomous Action and Rainbow Keepers, defended their right to a clean environment and fought against construction of a methanol shipping terminal in their home town.
After fall of the Soviet Union, there has been a huge pressure for development in the Black Sea rim, and environmental activists have had hard times attempting to protect what is remaining. Most of the protest campaigns in the area have been failures, but the Azov campaign, the peak of which was in 2003, was a success - eventually the methanol shipping terminal, which was already almost finished by then, was redesigned to be used for export of less dangerous goods. This was mostly due to mass popular protests, which managed to mount demonstrations of big as 7000 people in a city of 90 000.
This is a documentary of the protests in summer of 2003, which lasted for two months. Radical protests (road blockades and demonstrations), mobilization of people, life in the protest camp and relations between activists and local inhabitants are documented.
You may download the torrent from
Please see it and pass this message! The torrent is 4GB and includes plenty of additional material, such as photos of the protest and the MA thesis of Vadim Likhachyov in the English language on social antropology, "Equality in a radical environmental protest: pragmatism or imposed ideology? Two cases of protest campaigns in the South of Russia". The thesis is also separately available from the Autonomous Action website: http://avtonom.org/files/lib/ligachev.pdf

Saturday, August 02, 2008


ANARCHIST VIDEO:
SATAN MACNUGGIT AUGUST NEWSLETTER:
Jonathan Culp, the human behind the Satan MacNuggit project has sent out his August newsletter. Here it is for all you videophiles in all its glory.
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SATAN MACNUGGIT NEWS
AUGUST 2008:
1. SATAN ON FACEBOOK
2. GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH - TORONTO PREMIERE!
3. SATAN AT TRASH PALACE
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1. SATAN IS ON FACEBOOK
Which, since Facebook IS Satan, is only appropriate. Satan Macnuggit Group:
Grilled Cheese Sandwich screening event page:
Wait...did he say...
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2. GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH!!!
TORONTO PREMIERE!!!
WITH JUST LIKE THE MOVIES, HOLZKOPF, MATIAS ROZENBERG AND THE SUICIDE PILOTS!
Thursday August 14
(movie @ 7:30, bands @ 9)
The Smiling Buddha
961 College at Dovercourt
$6
Satan Macnuggit Popular Arts celebrates the Toronto premiere of Grilled Cheese Sandwich - a comedy about the revolution of everyday lunch - with an exciting evening of musical performances.
The hit of the 2007 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, Grilled Cheese Sandwich( www.cheesemovie.com ) comes home after playing to enthusiastic audiences from Edmonton to Miami. Jonathan Culp's first feature shows what happens when a bunch of wayward youth in deadly suburban Grimsville take on Principal Middleman, the Moose Meat Ladies and Squirrely's Pizza with their revolutionary underground grilled cheese sandwich club. It's the next best thing to getting the hell out!
Blending DIY social satire with random severed limbs and bowel movements, you will not be bored. "Chock full of nutritional messages...and, of course, very cheesy" (Feminist Review)
After the movie, things keep rolling with an evening of musical performances.
- GCS co-star Chris Mills (Kids on TV) brings us a special performance of his casio-rap act Just Like the Movies, celebrating the release of both a live freestyle CD and "The Movies", a Super 8 rock video DVD;
- Matias Rozenberg - another GCS performer/composer, will contribute his own thrilling and tuneful songs in a solo set;
- in from the West, Edmonton's beat/noise master Holzkopf - yet another Cheese soundtrack contributor - will offer a helping of his nonpareil "aural battery";
- Ottawa's notorious Suicide Pilots - headline-grabbing nemeses of John Bairdand the RCMP - will bring their political punk rock to town for a rare appearance.
- Finally, DJ Machine (Marinko Jareb) will be providing his psychedelic video mixing accompaniment all night long.
Come for the cheese, stay for the tunes at the underground event of the summer! For info, interviews and previews, contact Jonathan at jc@satanmacnuggit.com
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3. SATAN AT TRASH PALACE"TORONTO'S CLASSIEST CINEMA"
FRIDAY AUGUST 1 - EDUCATIONAL FILMS ALL NIGHT
Every week Trash Palace brings you psychotronic shorts before and after the feature - well this week the ungodly things have taken over! Watch the craziest stuff from the collections of Rob Cruickshank, Jonathan Culp and Greg Woods -all Trash Palace premieres!
Titles include:
*"At Your Fingertips: Boxes"
*"Read the Label and Live"
*"Linda's Film on Menstruation"
*"One Turkey, Two Turkey"
*"How to Conduct Yourself at School"
*"Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World"
*..and many, many more!
FRIDAY AUGUST 15 - HIGH-BALLIN'
Hot on the heels of our spectacularly successful collaboration on "Deadly Eyes",Satan returns to Trash Palace with another installment of the "Tax Shelter Excavation" series.
The latest pinnacle of Canadian cinema for you to enjoy is "High-Ballin'" - a Canadian trucker movie! Starring Peter Fonda and Jerry Reed - what more do you want? And for the snobs, that is definitely Canada in the background there. Directed by Peter Edwards, who also made the seminal "Rowdyman" and "Rituals",plus, well, "Highpoint".
HOW TRASH PALACE WORKS
Doors: 8:30 pm
Films: 9:30 pm
Tickets: In advance only (no walk-ins) at Tequila Bookworm (512 Queen West), $5 each. The theatre address is secret - the address is printed on the ticket!
(For TP rookies - we have sellouts, so we don't allow walk-ins - get your tickets in advance, we're a few minute walk from Tequila Bookworm, in the Kingand Bathurst area!)
As always, cold drinks, hot dogs, popped corn, candy, homemade chocolates by our in-house chocolatier, barbecue, t-shirts, dvds, lobby cards and more are all for sale!
See you there,
Jonathan Culp - Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Mouth - Snack Bar Manager
Oh and Trash Palace has a facebook group too:

Friday, February 02, 2007


NEW FROM CHRISTIE BOOKS/BRIGHTCOVE:
Christie Books is an anarchist multimedia publisher sustained by purchases of its publications, posters and donations. To donate via the internet see http://www.paypal.com and use the Christie Books email address of christie@btclick.com . Cheques can be sent through the mail to Christie Books, Box 35, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 2UX, England. To find out more about Christie Books and their projects go the website at http://www.tvhastingschristiebooks.com .
One of the projects of Christie Books is to make available various anarchist and anarchist related films free via the internet. The players for these films are available at http://tinyurl.com/t8sta or http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=219646953&firstvideo=0 .
Christie Books has just uploaded four new films:
Viva Zapata
Burn !(Quemada !)
Tupamaros
Cuba- Memoria Sindical
Happy viewing,
Molly