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Feb 3, 2017 at 7:30 pm

The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film

Discussion following this work-in-progress presentation with Co-Directors Maple Razsa and Milton Guillen

Twice, the people went into the streets. Twice, the police drove them away. What began as protests became uprisings. In the once-prosperous industrial city of Maribor, Slovenia, anger over political corruption became unruly revolt. This participatory documentary places audiences in the midst of the third and largest uprising as crowds surround and ransack City Hall under a hailstorm of tear gas canisters. Soon the mayor will resign—and the movement will spread to cities across the country.

The Maribor Uprisings takes up urgent questions raised by these events, and by uprisings elsewhere, from the Arab Spring, through Paris, to Black Lives Matter. What sparks such popular outrage? How are participants swept up in—and then changed by—confrontations with police? Could something like this happen in your city?

The directors invite audiences to engage these questions through an unusual and participatory form. Drawing on the dramatic frontline footage of a video activist collective embedded within the uprisings, this film places viewers amidst the jostling crowds. It requires them to make their own choices about which cameras they will follow and therefore how they will participate. Like those who joined the actual uprisings, audiences in the theater must decide whether to listen to organizers and remain with those committed to nonviolent protest on Freedom Square or to follow rowdy crowds toward City Hall and almost certain conflict.

Program

The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film

90 min., 2017, Dir. Maple Razsa & Milton Guillén

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Maple J. Razsa is committed to using text, images, and sound to embody the experience and political imagination of radical social movements. Since earning his PhD in anthropology and filmmaking at Harvard University, Maple has been teaching at Colby College. His previous films, codirected with Pacho Velez, include Bastards of Utopia and Occupation: A Film About the Harvard Living Wage Sit-In. 

Milton

Milton Guillen focuses in combining fiction and documentaries to explore the cinematic intersections of ethnographic research and sensorial experiences. Milton earned his BA from Colby College in Anthropology and is committed to engage in multiple platforms that strive for social justice

Details

Date
Feb 3, 2017
Time
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Cost
Free – $10
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Address

352 Onderdonk Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385 United States

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