[HacktionLab] Idea in formation for a possible session

[Brent]

Hi

Sounds good.

I have a few DVDs that might be of interest I can share / put in the bag,
e.g.:
Anarchy indy UK? 2006 videos (Indymedia compilation for Anarchist Bookfair)
Schmovies: V for Video Activist (2006)
Schmovies DVD collection (2005)
genoa red zone (indymedia)
Marxism 2008: Guerilla firm from the 1960s to today
Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe

On this note, Reel News ("London based activist video collective") has won
against injunction against their video of allegations against police -
https://reelnews.co.uk/2022/05/12/all-reelnews-campaigns/justice-campaigns/metu-huge-victory-in-the-high-court-reel-news-statement/

brent

On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 16:30, ekes <ekes at aktivix.org> wrote:

> I've got another idea for a session forming, so I thought I'd throw the
> idea here and see if anyone has interest or input... or maybe copies of
> media to help?
>
> Clara and me are both reading
> Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape
> Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas by Chris Robé
> https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=903
> at the moment, and we have the idea collect some films to screen to go
> with the argument/s being presented in the book. Partly just for us to
> watch, but we'd show them here in our social space as a bit of a season
> of films and discussion.
>
> I've not finished the book yet - just got to the Indymedia chapter
> funnily enough - but I can already summarise the form. He's making cases
> about:
>
> * The obvious: Access to technology changes how activists are making and
> distributing material, for example, the presentation style of
> third-cinema with film cameras to the porta paks of Videofreekx. And
> things like the knowing use of rough footage or simple camera work
> exposing the production and editing, for content by likes of Paper Tiger
> TV.
> * But also: How the groups reflect the society they are in. The
> developing, often implicit anarchist ways of organising which starts
> with the example along side the explicit Marxism-Leninism of of the
> 'League of Revolutionary Black Workers'; the recurring, but growing
> awareness of patriarchy; and the basic white middle class bias and
> relation to other groups, or white-saviour-ism. Peoples Video Theatre
> get an interesting mention there.
> * And: How they are presaging some of the changes in the capitalist
> economy, for example Videofreex as part of the fore-forefront of
> flex-capitalist employment in the media sector. And how the methods of
> organising sometimes integrate with changes in the economy.
>
> For films to screen the example of 'The Battle of Chile' seems a long
> one in the chapter on Third Cinema; but 'Finally Got The News' made with
> a group that split off Newsreel NY about/together with the 'League of
> Revolutionary Black Workers' in Detroit isn't, and it has a great
> political organisational backstory.
> I can already see that there are some films about, and by, the
> Videofreex, but films by Peoples Video Theatre seem to only have access
>    for media studies academics.
> Moving into Act Up, Paper Tiger TV, Deep Dish TV: I'm sure some folks on
> this list will have ideas about their films and/or where to get them.
> And then - getting to the point where I am in the book - there is output
> from the early Earth First, Cascadia Free State, Cascadia alive... and
> of course then this thing called Indymedia in Seattle...
>
> So as you can see a rough idea of films. A mixture of films about the
> movements and activists made later, and films made by them (some of
> which then usually need some context for presenting). Lots of them a
> pain to find, some easy.
>
> Sure some of you have opinions about good films to fit such a list, and
> might even have copies of them? Folks might also be interested in
> discussing the ideas, or arguments, that Robé is making in the book too.
> So a bit of a discussion.
>
> So something forming around that. Most certainly a discussion, and
> sharing of knowledge and media; not a presentation :-P
>
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