Where:
1-5pm @ The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
6pm-midnight @ The Yippie Museum (9 Bleeker St.)
Last April, the first ever New York Anarchist Film Festival was an overflowing success. Participants included filmmakers and viewers from around the country, Europe and Latin America. Despite being a grassroots, unfunded, do-it-yourself, stuck together with duct tape kind of effort, we presented a forum to share and experience incredibly artistic, creative and socially and politically diverse media which exposed viewers to all kinds of issues, perspectives and realities. It was an exciting event that brought many different kinds of people.
The Anarchist Film Festival seeks to nurture the human spirit, trapped in an inhuman system and infuse the viewer with passion, hope and courage to face the issues we all care about. Our films emphasize the struggle for dignity, environmental protection and also included several short films that were rebellious and subversive in content. Last year's film festival honored the life and work of Brad Will, a beloved friend and colleague murdered by a government sniper in Oaxaca Mexico on October 27, 2006 as he was filming. We will screen a cut of Brad's remarkable footage that documents a determined revolutionary people's uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico. We aim to screen films, which give us a window into various types of resistance movements deeply inspiring to behold.
Your support and interest is greatly appreciated. I am sure this year's film festival will also be memorable and both insightful and inciteful!
