[HacktionLab] Idea in formation for a possible session

Thu May 12 14:57:09 UTC 2022

I have I think those old classics Big Rattle in Seattle (1999), the Washington one (2000), Crowd Bites Wolf (2001 is it?) and also En Busca De Hackers (2004), and, of course, the complete Doctor Who The Keys of Time series ;-)

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> On 12 May 2022, at 13:53, Brent <thebrentc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/ <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 <mailto: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 <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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