Disruptive Film Vol. 1 (Disc 1)
Disruptive Film Vol. 1 (Disc 1)
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With this collection, curators Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner have successfully established a new history of film as political resistance. Vol. 1 is made up of four distinct programs with 26 short-form experimental non-fiction films. These radical global narratives span from 1914 to the early 21st century and truly represent the diversity in approaches to documentary filmmaking. The collection has been put together for both political and educational purposes, to offer film and media makers and scholars a chance to review unaccountably under-appreciated works of film, video, animation -- from France to Chiapas, from Serbia to China, to Nigeria -- works that propose various strategies of resistance to power. Don't watch documentary film without it! "This extraordinary collection informs and inspires. Spanning the history of cinema it demonstrates the remarkable power of film to engage, move, provoke and contend. It's a vital reference tool and instructive resource." ~ Bill Nichols, author and documentary scholar. This disc includes the following films: La Commune by Armand Guerra & Le Cinema du Peuple (France, 1914, 90 sec. excerpt) I Like Students (Me Gustan Los Estudiantes) by Mario Handler (Uruguay, 1967, 6 min.) Iranian's Women's Liberation Movement, Year Zero by Iranian Women & Women of the Political & Psychoanalytical Group (Iran/France, 1979, 12 min.) Requiem for M by Kiri Dalena (Philippines, 2010, 7 min.) The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It by Chiapas Media Project (Mexico, 2005, 15 min.) Prototype: God Bless America by Martha Rosler (USA, 2006, 1 min.) The Route by Chen Chieh-Jeh (Taiwan, 2006, 17 min.) Prayer for Fear by Mosireen Collective (Egypt, 2013, 4 min.) Inventory by Zelimir Zilnik (Germany/Yugoslavia, 1972, 9 min.) They Will Kill Us by Sylvain George (France, 2010, 11 min.) Hezreallah by Yann Beauvais (France, 2006, 44 sec.) The Food Chain by Ariella Azoula (Israel/USA, 2004, 14 min.) The Right of Passage by Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler (Australia/Austria, 2013, 19 min.) See Disc 2 for more. France/Uruguay/Iran/Philippines/Mexico/USA/Taiwan/Egypt/Yugoslavia/Israel/Australia/Austria/Algeria/Russia/Canada/Rhodesia/Germany/Palestine/---1917-2013 --- 238 mins.

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  | Jeff#18

First of all let me say that the simple navigation on this disc is hell on wheels. It's as if they tried to win a prize for the most disjointed and confusing, not to mention frustrating, menu ever created for a video disc. It is so thrown together that I find it hard to even describe it, because is supremely confusing and misleading. It became a real effort just to make sure that I had seen the whole film, and if you want to go forward or backwards in the offerings, then lots of luck to you, because you'll pretty much have to guess how to do that. In this sense of menu design and utter lack of any physical disc organization or user friendliness, the movie truly earned the name "Disruptive Film". The shorts that make up the disc are all about social justice, of one country or population victimizing, oppressing or rejecting another country or population, or sometimes people among their own population. Justice for immigrants is an overarching theme, as are the rights of immigrants and workers. Most of the shorts are made up of brief snippets. Several of the films don't even tell you what country or city the film is shot in, or which the film is about. Frankly, it gives me the impression that it was "thrown together" in record time and with absolutely minimal effort and creativity. I can't recommend this film, although I am a huge fan normally of any film related to social justice and equality. Rent any other halfway decently made film about immigrant rights and the reality of immigrants, and you'll find it stands head and shoulders above this one.

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