Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers! (2013) + Breaking the Spell (1999)
Line up: Anarchist Film Festival
Open: 21:45 - 23:15
Tickets: € / Donation-based / Cineville
Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers!
Marcos Flórez, Samuel M. Delgado, José Luis Maire | 2013 | 33' | English
In 2011, Ben Morea – an outstanding figure of U.S.A. counterculture in the sixties – appears in Madrid during an encounter organized by La Felguera Editores. 40 years have passed since his trail has been lost in New Mexico's mountains.
In 1966 he founds the underground publication Black Mask, mixing in their pages art and anarchism. Upon it, an affinity group called Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers! is built around. Their actions were progressively intensified according to the lucidity of their approaches which build their own way in a time dominated by the hippies and the new left organizations. They sported penknives and fire arms in the Lower East Side of New York. They were ready for something else.
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Breaking the Spell
Tim Lewis, Tim Ream | 1999 | 63' | English
An hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the anarchists who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation, this documentary picks up where Pickaxe left off. Filmed in the thick of the action, including footage that aired nationally on 60 Minutes, it captures a moment when world history was up for grabs.
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Anarchist Group Amsterdam (AGA), in collaboration with Filmhuis Cavia, welcomes you back to the Amsterdam Anarchist Film Festival. Seven long years after our 2019 edition, we return with an exciting programme of films meant to bring hope, anger, joy and a call to action against an ever more absurd and crumbling capitalist reality that drifts into the future on the waves of war, genocide, environmental destruction and the looming rise of techno-fascism.
From December 4th to 6th at Filmhuis Cavia, we seek to create an oasis of resistance with screenings, talks and discussions meant to build solidarity, community and nourishment for the soul and mind. Our selection of films will explore varied topics: from critiques of patriarchal norms and historical anarchist struggles to absurd loops of gender-bending fun and postcolonial malaise.