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"Genoa Red Zone" screening in Cambridge

IMC Cambridge | 04.05.2004 17:40 | Globalisation | Repression | Cambridge

Hi folks, another film offering for your discerning vision, 7.30pm this Sunday (May 9th) in the back room of the Locomotive on Mill Road.

Genoa Red Zone
Indymedia
80 minutes

In July 2001 leaders from the world's eight most powerful nations (G8) met in the Italian port of Genova. Encircled by a vast steel fence and declared 'off limits' - the city centre became the forum for a brutal and bloody weekend. Despite unprecedented levels of security over 300,000 protesters joined forces to highlight their frustration at increasingly dictatorial, profit-hungry systems of government spearheaded by the G8.

This film does not hide from the truth: Staggering images of violence provide gritty realism yet the beauty of resistance shines through. Despite the repression, a multitude of voices were heard in Genova: Landless Peruvian peasants stood side by side with Sicilian cheesemakers; national boundaries were overturned as an global body of people demanded a world built on social and environmental equality. That flame - it appears - is impossible to extinguish.

Working with over 160 hours of protest-based footage recorded by scores of D.I.Y video teams, an international group of film-makers from Italy, Ireland and the UK set out to unpick the events surrounding those brutal Genova days. This film presents a radical narrative of the build-up to the events, presents the protests at street level and concludes with the long-term struggle for justice in the aftermath of the demonstrations.


If anyone is interested in the background to this, the events depicted in the film and the movement against the G8 then there's loads of information at  http://www.urban75.org/genoa/, and even more scattered around the Internet in general...

Cheers, hope to see you there.

IMC Cambridge
- e-mail: imc-cambridge-contact@lists.indymedia.org
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Why not have something around the films?

04.05.2004 18:07

I've now been to two of the Cambridge Indymedia screenings-- "The Revolution will not be Televised" (about the attempted coup against Chavez in Venezuela in 2002) and "Afghan Massacre" (about the murder of 3,000 former Taliban fighters by Dostum's forces and the US special forces). I was very glad to see both of them, and am grateful to the organizers.
But in both cases I felt that we should have had some discussion of the films and the events they explored afterwords. Okay I could have started something off myself-- but it felt wierd to think of saying anything, since the film screening was so clearly packaged by Cam Indymedia as a selfcontained event. I wonder if you could set up a couple of people to start discussions about the films afterwords?

Cantabrigand


no dissent! group in cambridge: why not start organising against g8 2005...

04.05.2004 18:44

hey cambridge people, why not use this film night as a rallying point to start a local dissent! group in your city?

print off some copies of the dissent newsletter [  http://www.dissent.org.uk/content/view/8/2/ ] and distribute them....... :-)

set up an email address and a working group email list, disribute them here and wherever else and you're off!!! anyone can do this ;-)

 http://www.dissent.org.uk
 http://www.enrager.net/current/g8/index.php

djome


re: dissent group

05.05.2004 22:15

There's actually already a gang of people in Cambridge organising themselves into a direct-action-friendly group, with the eventual (but not final) aim of taking part in protests against the G8 in 2005. They're not part of the Dissent network although that idea has been floated around. They're meeting in the Hut of Argyle St. Housing Co-op (just over the bridge going out of town on Mill Road), tomorrow, Thursday 6th, at 5.30pm, and it's possible that we'll be showing a short film on Saturday of their recent attempt to reclaim the Grafton Centre... It may also being possible to drag one or two of them out to explain themselves. Celebrity screening! Come one, come all etc.

Tom


re: film discussions

06.05.2004 09:14

We've raised about the idea of 'organising' a discussion after the films a couple of times. I'm pretty sure that everyone involved in putting on the films hopes that they're a source of information to facilitate discussion and awareness and all that good stuff, and they're not just intended to be a random late night movie package before the joy of Monday morning :-) For myself, if I'm helping pack stuff away it's cos I can't think of anything more constructive to do and definitely not because I want people to go home...

When possible, we've had people along who were involved in the film making or have some specific knowledge of the content of the film in order to answer questions - this doesn't happen too often though.
I think that maybe we've hit the same problem you've touched on - people haven't felt up for standing up and saying "right, let's all have a chat about that then" ! It does seem that there's a bit of support for this idea though - as ever, if anyone's interested in working with us on this then that'd be cool; we're having a meeting at Clowns on Monday at 7.30pm, or there's the contact email address -  imc-cambridge-contact@lists.indymedia.org .

Thanks for the feedback, all appreciated.

Tom


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