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Chicago Anarchist Film Festival
- CHICAGO, Illinois, US
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PRESS FROM 2009 CHICAGO ANARCHIST FILM FEST www.suntimes.com/entertainment/weekend/1541356,WKP-News-mix24.articleMusic
Movies
We have a good article as part of Art House film article in the Movie Section of the Sun-Times and online http://m.suntimes.com/suntimes/db_9719/contentdetail.htm%3Bjsessionid=4A682EAB51684D1465B45571253DF8BA?contentguid=uGgCg3EN&storycount=4&detailindex=3&full=trueTelevision
We are listed in Timeout in the around town section as a city-pick of the day for Friday Sat and Sun and we are also listed in the Film Section ....and online http://chicago.timeout.com/events/film/278516/chicago-anarchist-film-festivalBooks
Plus we are listed in the Reader in the film section and online http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/briefs/34307_CHICAGO_ANARCHIST_FILM_FESTIVAL.html Gapers block website http://gapersblock.com/slowdown/archives/2009/04/24/ And the chicagoist website. http://chicagoist.com/2009/04/14/gorging_on_movies.phpHeroes
Baukunin, Kropotkin, De Cleyre, Goldman, Berkman, Parsons, Haymarket Martyrs, Chomsky ..
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About me:
Chicago Anarchist Film Festival (CAFF) 1321 N Milwaukee Ave #453, Chicago IL 60642 CAFF@riseup.netLink to CAFF website
http://home.comcast.net/~more_about_it
Link to Finding Our Roots website
http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/chicago-anarchist-film-fest/
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Who I'd like to meet:
Call for Film and Video!10th Annual Chicago Anarchist Film Festival
For those not counting, 2010 will be the 10th annual Chicago Anarchist Film Festival. As always, we will present a sample of films from mainstream sources, rediscovered classics and the works of filmmakers engaged in social change with an anarchist vision.
Organizers are now seeking un- & under-distributed films and videos to include in the 2010 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival. We also welcome suggestions for titles that may inadvertently allow anarchy to seep through the cracks of the status quo. Movie collage, music videos and trailers for works-in-progress will also be considered.
Deadline is April 1, 2010
Additionally we would like to broaden the scope and cross some boundaries. The curatorial team is re-imagining the Film Fest as more than “seats facing a screen,” however many circle as are projected. We envision real live filmmkers and maybe even live action. Beyond that, it all goes blurry (soft focus, anyone?).
And here’s where you come in- what would inspire you? What do you want to participate in? On-the-spot movie making? A skype simulcast with like-minded filmmakers from around the world? A press conference with journalists and audience posing questions to a panel of filmmakers? We have begun to plan and desire your suggestions and your presence.
Email us at: caff@riseup.net
Visit us: http://home.comcast.net/~more_about_it
Chicago Anarchist Film Festival (CAFF)
1321 N Milwaukee Ave #453, Chicago IL 60642
Guidlines for Submitting Film & Video All entries must be submitted with an entry form.
A contributor’s statement and any promotional material is appreciated. Please also indicate if you are available and interested in attending the festival.
Submissions should be DVD (2 copies, any zone) or vhs (pal or ntsc). It may be possible to screen 16mm as well, but we need video for purpose of review.
Selection is based on time allocation, relevance, quality and resonance. In addition to our invaluable appreciation and heartfelt thanks, we will be collecting audience feedback which can be provided to contributors on request.
We are working on having a 10th Anniversary Chicago Anarchist Film Festival Prize. All entrants will be updated on the status of their submissions after the deadline has passed. We ask the contributions be made with the anarchist spirit of community and celebration with which they will be received. Solidarity!
Shipping costs are the responsibility of the entrants. Videos will be returned upon request. To ensure prompt return of material, please enclose $3 per submission. Otherwise material submitted to the festival will be donated to a suitable community recipient.
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Nov 18 2009 2:09 PM
There are plenty of things to enjoy on our site. View the latest film & music video arrivals, upload your own work and make friends with similar interests. Browse our extensive network database, read movie reviews and filmmaker interviews, and of course, set up your profile and communicate with friends.
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Nov 13 2009 1:53 AM
Oct 23 2009 8:22 PM
Stalked_The trailer
Oct 9 2009 9:09 PM
Sep 20 2009 8:40 PM
movies about contemporary latin american struggles/peliculas sobre las luchas contemporaneas de latinoamerica
a series of independent films about latin america
una serie de peliculas independientes sobre latinoamerica
Lichen Lending Library/ Biblioteca Autonoma Lichen
1921 S. Blue Island, Chicago IL
the
year 2010 marks the centennial anniversary of the mexican revolution -
a controversial and much criticized uprising that has been thoroughly
co-opted by neoliberal technocrats of the capitalist party system.
however, new forms of social organization, autonomy, self-management
and insurrection seem poised to shake these institutions and their
diseased siblings throughout latin america. in many struggles
throughout mexico, 2010 has become a symbol for future social rupture
and has been embraced as an enigma with which to contest and reinvent
the past. join us as we navigate the realities of these struggles
through the medium of film as the landmark year approaches.
el
ano 2010 marca el aniversario centenial de la revolucion mexicana - un
levantamiento controvertido y muy criticable que ha sido apropiado por
los tecnocratas neoliberales del systema capitalista partidista. sin
embargo, nuevas formas de organizacion social, autonomia, autogestion y
insurreccion parecen estar preparadas ha sacudir estas instituciones y
sus enfermos familiares a traves de latinoamerica. en muchas luchas a
traves de
Sep 18 2009 3:25 PM
Sep 6 2009 5:31 PM
the 10th year the Chicago Anarchist Film Festival will present a sample
of films from mainstream sources, rediscovered classics and the works
of filmmakers engaged in social change with an anarchist vision. Most
media of all types launch attacks that distort, discredit and deny
anarchists entirely. Anarchists and their allies respond with a
relentless volley of images and stories that reveal, revive and
invigorate a rich anarchist presence in society.
Chicago Anarchist Film Festival organizers seek un- and under-distributed
films and videos to include in the 2010 Chicago Anarchist Film
Festival. We also welcome suggestions for titles that may inadvertently
allow anarchy to seep through the cracks of the status quo. Movie
collage, music videos and trailers for works-in-progress will also be considered.
Deadline- April 1, 2010
email us for entry form!
visit our web page
Aug 27 2009 10:43 PM
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thanks!
alicia banks
OUTLOOK
http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com
Aug 27 2009 4:20 PM
Ariel Attack, a Denver Bash Back!er, was arrested at 2:27am Tues, 24 here in Denver for allegedly smashing 11 windows of the Democratic Party headquaters at 777 Santa Fe Drive.
Right now, BB! and several other groups are trying to raise the bail money for her to get out of jail; her bail hearing will be tomorrow at 10am Denver time. Several lawyers have told us to expect anywhere from between $3,000 to $10,000 in bail, and due to the high publicity of the case here in Denver, we are expecting higher (lead story for most all local news outlets, and being picked up by national news networks).
At this moment, we do not know Ariel's status within the jail, especially regarding her gender classification. We have been unable to talk with Ariel since she went in. She is listed in the jail records and media under her birth name. We also do not know what plans, if any, she had made for this situation.
As such, Denver BB! and all of her friends and community are calling out hoping to raise the money to at least make bond. Jail is a dangerous place for everyone, but especially trans people, and we make every effort to get our friends and comrades out. We are also asking people to NOT call the jail and potentially out Ariel, which would create a very dangerous situation. Interaction with the jail is being done by people here in Denver in very specific ways to create the maximum amount of safety possible for Ariel.
Below is a link to the paypal account which will deposit money into the FREE ARIEL ATTACK FUND!!! Please do what you can to help get an amazing friend and comrade out of jail and back into her community. Also below are links to some of the corporate media stories about her arrest.
THANK YOU!!!
denver bash back!
PAYPAL
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?
Aug 20 2009 3:55 PM
Political Party of the Year. The second annual Brew Not Bombs benefit hosted
by the Brew Not Bombs Collective-Chicago will be happening September 19,
2009. In the spirit of the "Food Not Bombs" movement this years event will
be a split benefit for the Cob Connection and Iraq Veterans Against the War
(IVAW) Chicago. The Cob Connection is a non for profit that promotes
sustainable agriculture on Chicago West Side and the IVAW is a group of
Veterans who have served since 9-11 who participate in educating the public
about militarism and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Come out and sample one of a kind home brews (must be 21+), local
micro-breweries and partake or compete in this years Vegan Pizza Contest
(all you can eat pizza).
If that weren't enough this years event will feature out of town greats,
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb and Defiance, Ohio along with other excellent music
acts! Rock Out. Eat Vegan Pizza. Drink one of a kind Brews. Take Brewing
Back from the Corporations and support positive local non for profits. Fun,
Fun, Fun!!!
Chicago Brew Not Bombs Collective
September 19, 2009
$8, 5pm @ 3951 W Fullerton
All You can eat Vegan Pizza + Home Brew (21+)
Bands:
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
Defiance, Ohio
The Read,
Sassdragons
Al Scorch
Rustbelt Ramblers
Agents of Change
Jun 8 2009 4:53 PM
Jun 8 2009 4:18 PM
I have been very active in Domestic Violence causes all of my adult life. I noticed a need in the world pertaining to Same Sex Domestic Violence. It happens more than people know. Unfortunately there are a number of gay people who barely consider themselves worthy or valued as a gay person much less a Domestic Violence Victim. There are also very limited resources, statistics, or information, for Same Sex Domestic Violence. Hopefully through empowerment and education we can change some of this. :D
May 22 2009 1:15 AM
May 15 2009 9:23 AM
short film poem.
May 11 2009 7:15 PM
May 3 2009 4:27 PM
Mar 20 2009 6:32 PM
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Feb 17 2009 12:04 AM
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Jan 23 2009 1:40 AM
Jan 19 2009 4:53 PM
As my peoples taught me
"IT AIN'T NOTHING BUT CHEWED UP GRASS CUZIN..."
A little Black girl (UNCLASSIFIED)
A stranger was seated next to a little black girl on the airplane when
the stranger turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard
that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your
fellow passenger."
The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like
to talk about?" "Oh, I don't know," said the stranger.
"Since you are a black, do you think that So-called President Elect Barak Obama is
qualified for the job?" and he smiles.
"OK", she said. 'That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you
a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff -grass -. Yet a deer
excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a
flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do
you suppose that is?" The stranger, visibly surprised by the little
girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."
To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to
discuss President Barak Obama... when you don't know shit?"
Jan 14 2009 12:24 AM
Nice to meet you,
I'm Cristina :)
Aug 23 2008 2:58 PM
A collection of essays to be published by Demeter Press Spring 2011 Edited by Susan Driver and Zoë Newman
A proliferation of experientially based essays, media stories, documentary films, television profiles, photographic essays and do-it-yourself manuals featuring lesbian mothers and gay dads have emerged to mark out cultural
discourses in which to understand lesbian and gay families. But while
these images and narratives enable positive representations that counter invisibility and marginalization, they often work to delimit transformative modes of thinking and acting beyond normalizing categories.
For LGBTTT2Q communities in Canada, the US, and Europe, family has been a site of struggle and invisibility, and has also been constructed as a site of transformation and pride, sometimes with the result that we have
sidelined interrogations of how 'queer families' are normative and
exclusionary. It is those troubling, ambiguous and unintelligible subjects
that do not fit neatly into parental discourses that need to enter into
public dialogues as part of a comprehensive project of queering parenting.
This book adopts a range of critically queer theoretical perspectives to
rethink the parameters of parenting and family beyond heteronormative
boundaries. Our goal is to engage with difficult knowledges and changing embodied parental experiences that include dynamic gender and sexual arrangements as they are lived through multi-layered racial, national and
class relations. Rather than list those identities that fit into a queer paradigm we encourage a more pliable framework that explores the
institutions, languages and contexts of parenting, complicating the ways powers shape alternatives to white middle-class heterosexual nuclear formations. Our interest is in fostering interpretive work on parenting that bridges articulations of intimate subjectivity, and analysis of broad
social and historical forces that cumulatively im
May 23 2008 7:10 PM
FUCK THE POLICE, VIVA LA REVOLUCION
May 2 2008 2:56 PM
Keep the Quiet Down!
May 2-May 4 2008
at Centro Autonomo
3460 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago
CTA: Just west of Brown Line Kimball stop
and off the Kimball & Lawrence Buses.
For film descriptions visit:
http://home. comcast. net/~more_about_it/
SCHEDULE
Festival Day One: A little background Music
Friday May 2
7pm-10:30pm
7:00pm The Internationale
7:35pm Selections from Disaster and the Spectacle
7:45pm History of Oil by Robert Newman
8:45pm DICK!
8:55pm Simón Radowitzky
9:20pm It Can Happen Here
Festival Day Two: Turn It To 11
Saturday May 3
12:30pm-4pm (Matinee)
12:30pm Heavy Metal Drummer
12:36pm Table Bed Chair
1:06pm Portrait #2: Trojan
1:15pm Torture is Us
1:45pm Rise Up!
2:05pm I Can't Help This
2:10pm The Day the Country Died
Festival Day three: Something More
Sunday May 4
7pm-10:30pm
7:00pm More
7:06pm Lunch Break/Second Take
7:11pm 5 1/2 Roofs: Tony's Cafe
7:30pm American Storage
7:45pm Radio Realidad by local EN EL OJO Productions
8:25pm The Jena 6
9:00pm Made in Secret
For film descriptions visit:
http://home. comcast. net/~more_about_it/
$5-10 donation per festival day (No One Turned Away for lack of funds). Increase the fun with the annual raffle! Great prizes! Drawing at the fest each night. You don't need to be present to win. $2 for each raffle ticket/ $5 for 3 raffle tickets. See website for list of prizes.
Local coverage of the Film Festival:
Chicago Reader
http://www. chicagoreader. com/features/stories/sidebars/movies/anarchist08/
Chicago SunTimes:
http://www. suntimes. com/entertainment/movies/926266,MOV-News-CAFF02. article
May 1 2008 8:19 AM