The Guy Fawkes Answer to the Election...
Chicago Anarchist Film Festival
Presents a FREE FILM NIGHT*
WED
THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER
4:30PM9PM
Jane Addams Hull House Museum annex
800 South Halsted Street
(off the Halsted bus and the UIC Halsted stop on the Blue Line at the edge
of the UIC campus)
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The Free Film Night features some of the best of the festival!
Films begin at 4:30pm and feature film begins at 7:30pm.
Films
Lineup subject to change.
Schedule to come.
Table Bed Chair (by Robert Hack and Jakob Proyer, 30m)The film combines insights into the history of the squatter movement and its particularly well-developed autonomous structures and practices with a focus on the extraordinary legal situation in the Netherlands.
Beyond the Screams (by Martín Sorrondeguy, 1999, 30 min) Punk's not dead. A far reaching documentary on Latino punk rock, a "culture within a subculture". Interviews and live footage show the breadth of Latinos in punk and reveal the history of the space that they made for themselves. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll
pogo. 2000 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.
Frog in the Well (by Cervando David Martinez, 2001, 30 min) The biography of Ho-Kun Yuen, a Chinese immigrant to San Francisco in 1949. Yuen thoroughly documented the social movements of the Bay Area for over three decades. His archive and the philosophy behind it remained almost unknown until his death in 1997. 2001 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.
Paint It Black: Anarchism, Urban Uprising and The Mainstream News Media
(by Jessica Lawless, 2002 45 min) Film about the portrayal of anarchists in
the corporate media. 2002 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.
Radio Campesino
(by Victoria Cervantes, 2003, 12 min) A video about setting up a radio station
in Honduras by local filmmaker. 2003 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.
Selected Satan MacNuggit Short(s)
(by Satan McNuggit, various lengths) (TBD) Satan McNuggit has contributed many
films to the festival over the years, both feature length and shorts ‹ CAFF is
highlighting some shorts at the Free Film Night. 2005 Chicago Anarchist Film
Festival.
Preacher With an Unknown God (by Rob Van Alkemade, 2005, 18 min) This Sundance 2006 award-winner follows anti-corporate activist/performance artist Reverend Billy and his Church-of-Stop-Shopping as they exorcize big box stores and cash registers across the country. 2006 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival
Gender Play (by Philipe Lonestar, 2004, 10 min) a spirited compilation on what gender and
sexuality mean to those who challenge it¹s social constructs. 2007 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.
Torture is Us (by Scooter Twomey, 2007, 30 min) Scooter Twomey endeavors to set up his own
independent torture company in lieu of the CIA being banned from Europe for extraordinary rendition. Seriously Funny. Premiered at the 2008 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival and voted best of the fest!.
AND a selection from Gunpowder Plot in honor of the 5th of November (Offers
some background on Guy Fawkes day). 10 min.
*Participate in the Book Drop for Midwest Books to Prisoners (MWBTP): Bring
Donated Books to the November 5th Free Film Night! MWBTP sends reading
materials to people in prison. Volunteers collect book donations, read
letters, pack packages and solicit donations for postage. Through sending
books, MWBTP hopes to assist inmates in educating, entertaining and
empowering themselves. MWBTP relies donated books and their only financial
burden is postage (stamps always welcome).
www.freewebs.com/mwbtp/