10 September 2009 - The Banality of Disaster: Mapping Materialism

Thursday September 10th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - Red Channels, 1906/2009, 17 minutes
--A Tale of Two Cities - Army-Navy Screen Magazine, 1946, 12 minutes
--Night and Fog - Alain Resnais, 1955, 32 minutes
--September - Dan Meyerson & Matt Peterson, 2008, 29 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes | Digital Projection

Co-curated by Kazembe Balagun and the Brecht Forum
Co-sponsored by Red Channels


(The Resnais film was released on DVD (2003) by Criterion.)

2 September 2009 - Reclamation: Organized Housing in NYC

Wednesday September 2nd - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--Break and Enter (Rompiendo Puertas) - Newsreel, 1970, 42 minutes
--At Home in Utopia - Michal Goldman, 2008, 57 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Tom Gogan - of the Union of City Tenants
--Esperanza Martell - member of El Comite
--Boris Ourlicht - Coopnik
--Laurie Ourlicht - Boris' daughter, Coops descendant, Westbeth resident, visual artist
--Ed Yellin - Coopnik

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(All of the Newsreel films are available from Third World Newsreel. The Goldman film is available on DVD (2009) from Filmmakers Collaborative.)

31 August 2009 - Stir Crazy: History in Black and White

Monday August 31st - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--How Does It Go with the Black Movement? - Warren Steibel, 1973, 60 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes | Digital Projection

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(William F. Buckley's "Firing Line" video archives are available from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.)

26 August 2009 - The Greatest Threat: Black Panthers 68-71

Wednesday August 26th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--Huey! - Sally Pugh, 1968, 30 minutes
--Bobby Seale - Newsreel, 1969, 15 minutes
--Black Panthers in Chicago - Videofreex, 1969, 24 minutes
--The Death of a Revolutionary - World in Action, 1971, 25 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Thomas "Blood" McCreary - member of the Black Panther Party (New York Chapter) and the Black Liberation Army


(The Sally Pugh film can be purchased on DVD (2006) from International Historic Films. All of the Newsreel films are available from Third World Newsreel. The Videofreex archives are currently being preserved and distributed by Video Data Bank. Network in the UK released a (PAL) 2-DVD set (2005) of twelve "World in Action" programs from 1967-1991.)

25 August 2009 - Historical Memory: The Library in 1956

Tuesday August 25th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--Toute la mémoire du monde (All the Memory of the World) - Alain Resnais, 1956, 21 minutes
--Storm Center - Daniel Taradash, 1956, 86 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes | Digital Projection

Co-Presented by Radical Reference


(The Resnais film appears as a bonus feature of Criterion's DVD (2009) of Last Year at Marienbad (1961).)
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