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Resurrecting a Revolutionary Cinema

Malav Kanuga — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:05:05 +0000

On Sunday — 04.04.10, noon to 6PM — join us for Resurrecting a Revolutionary Cinema: The Hour of the Furnaces, a film screening and discussion co-presented by DocTruck, Libertad Gills, Red Channels, and the UnionDocs Collaborative and co-sponsored by Cinema Tropical and This is Forever.

On Easter Sunday we will present a daylong, open-ended, collaborative and community screening of Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas’ The Hour of the Furnaces. In organizing such an event the usual questions arise: what does a film about Argentina mean to us in the United States; what does a film from 1968 mean to us in 2010; and, more broadly, what is the function of a political film, a revolutionary cinema, in our contemporary cultural political and digitally mediated landscape.

The Hour of the Furnaces is historically seen as a benchmark, a landmark, of militant cinema; but with that it also becomes a remnant of a certain time and a place, a relic of a long-since-passed Zeitgeist. The danger
comes from the potential of presenting a memorial service; that the ceremonial structure of such an event will be an acting out, an anachronism.

The film’s tone, scope, scale, and exhibition demands necessitate a certain theatricality. Furnaces has a 4-hour running time, and three distinct parts with built-in intermissions designed for audience participation and open discussion. We will discuss all of this with a focus on the present. Coffee, tea, juice, bagels, and a simple brunch will be available throughout the day.

–The Hour of the Furnaces: Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism, Violence and Liberation -

Octavio Getino & Fernando Ezequiel Solanas,
1968, 230 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 230 minutes | Digital Projection

Marcel van der Linden on Working Class History from Below

Malav Kanuga — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:42:01 +0000

On Saturday, October 31st at 12PM, Marcel van der Linden will be presenting research from his book, “Workers of the World, Essays Towards a Global labor History,” which builds the foundations of a global history of capitalism from below: a history freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, van der Linden provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery, indentured labor, and subsistence labor; and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world.

This event will take place at 16 Beaver Group (16 Beaver Street, 4th fl., New York, NY 10004). See the UPCOMING EVENTS and SEMINAR page for more information or click here.

Four Day Seminar with Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Malav Kanuga — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:56:59 +0000

The recent militant publishing project Minor Compositions and 16 Beaver are organizing a four-day seminar with Bifo, from Thursday, September 3rd to Sunday, September 6th. “Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of Post-Alpha Generation,” Bifo’s most recent book will be available for free to all seminar participants.

The seminar will take place at 16 Beaver: Thursday schedule will be from 5pm - 8pm. Friday will be from 12:00pm to 10pm. Saturday, and Sunday will go from 11:00am to 10pm. A sliding scale fee of $25-50 is requested to help defray costs associated with bringing Bifo to NYC, as well as covering food for the 4 days.

Updates and readings are available at the 16 Beaver website here and other queries can be directed to subject [AT] 16beavergroup [DOT] org.

Stevphen Shukaitis on “Imaginal Machines”

Malav Kanuga — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:28:09 +0000

On Wednesday, April 1st at 7pm, Stevphen Shukaitis will present his recently completed doctoral thesis entitled “Imaginal Machines, Movements, and Academic Enclosures.” In an effort to reimagine (and reappropriate) the academic processes through which doctoral degrees are granted, Stevphen will be presenting his work as a ‘movement-defense’ of his thesis. Joining him are George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici.

Electronic copies of Stevphen’s research is available here.

The event will take place at 16Beaver. Please see UPCOMING EVENTS for more info.