Solidarity
A film on the Dare strike of the early 1970s. Hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing with the word Solidarity superimposed on the screen. The soundtrack is an organizer’s speech on the labour situation. Like her films “Rat Life and Diet in North America,” “Pierre Vallieres” and “Reason Over Passion,” Solidarity combines a political awareness, an aesthetic viewpoint and a sense of humour unique in Wieland’s work.
USA, Canada 1973 / 10:40 / Director: Joyce Wieland
Beijing 1988
China seen from Beijing May 1988, a year before the Spring 1989 Tiananmen rebellion, where the ancient traditional philosophies and social practices confront the political and economical ideological ambitions of the State. Music by François Alexis Degrenier.
France 1988-2011 / 12:17 / Director: Rose Lowder
Readymades in Hades
Photographed in East Sommerville, MA. An empty lot piled with garbage and remnants of the past lives of its nearby residents, the children of whom roam through this claustrophobic making their own private sense of it all.
USA 1986-1987 / 07:50 / Director: Caroline Avery
Old Digs
An inner journey through the sights and sounds of Kristinehamn as reflected in its central river.
Sweden 1993 / 20:00 / Director: Gunvor Nelson
New Left Notes
Saul Levine’s rapid fire cutting has never found a more appropriate subject than here, his film on the anti-war, anti-racist, and women’s liberation movements of the early 1970s in America. New Left Notes represents a synthesis of ideas that Levine sought to inject into a much-divided movement.
USA 1968-1982 / 26:00 / Director: Saul Levine
Sensitometrie IV
Anarchism, Castroism, Maoism, while mingled. But what survives is Nihilism! Alain Peyrefitte in the National Assembly, May 9, 1968.
France 1976 / 05:30 / Director: Patrice Kirchhofer