This month In a continuation of the popular screenings at the Spitz – INDYMEDIA in collaboration with the ARGENTINA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN are showing four films based around the struggles that have taken place in recent times. Argentina may be economically deprived - Yet as these films show, the country is rich in human ingenuity, passion and resistance, as they unite in there struggles to overcome there recent trauma’s and search for a better way.
The films include:
VOCES ARGENTINAS/ARGENTINA VOICES (16 minutes)
2002 Conscious Cinema/Dylan Howitt and Zoe Young
Argentina Voices documents the rising frustration of the dispossessed population in
Argentina with their president and government. As their anger grows, they
decide to protest, but are met head-on by the police, whose brutality
shows no mercy for their plight.
DOS VECES LA VIDA (10 Mins) - New Addition
- is a personal insight by a filmmaker into the predicament of his immigrant father recently arrived in the UK. In 1936, Siegmar Haase fled from Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Argentina. In 2002 at the age of 70, Siegmar and his wife were forced by the crisis and violence in Argentina to sell all their possessions and take the return journey to Europe. Intimately filmed by Diego Haase, this is a documentary about forced economic migration and its impact on a family.
LA FABRICA ES NUESTRA/THE FACTORY IS OURS (25 minutes)
2003 Grupo de Boedo Films and Contraimagen
“La Fabrica es Nuestra” documents the first seizure of the Brukman factory. In November 2002, the police, with the support of the municipal and judicial authorities, force their way into the Brukman factory in an effort to remove the workers who have taken it over. But supporters of the workers from local neighborhood assemblies, political parties, and social organisations surround the factory and frustrate the efforts of the police
to kick the workers out.
OBRERAS SIN PATRON/WORKERS WITHOUT BOSSES (20 minutes)
2003 Collectiva Kino/Nuestra Lucha
“Obreras Sin Patron” documents the second seizure of the Brukman factory and the continued resistance of the workers. In April 2003, the police take over the factory in a surprise attack. Students, artists, unions, neighborhood assemblies, and political parties join together with the Brukman workers to help recover the factory. When negotiations with the authorities fail, thousands of people gather to demolish the police barricades surrounding the factory. The violent repression that follows only reinforces the workers’ determination to keep control of Brukman.
THE BRIDGE - EL PUENTE (46 minutes)
2002 Myriam Angueira
A powerful story from Corrientes, in Argentina's interior. It's 1999, and local teachers have been waiting to be paid for many months. They decide to take action to defend their most basic services. They occupy a bridge and an epic struggle ensues. And so it
is that in the streets and bridges of Argentina a new consciousness is being born. Two years later, a popular rebellion causes the fall of the administration of De La Rua.
THE FILMS WILL BE SHOWN ON THE 17TH OF NOVEMBER, STARTING AT 7:30 IN THE GALLERY AREA OF THE SPITZ. 109 COMMERCIAL STREET E1.
Indymedia is an independent network of media collectives dedicated to empowering people to use print, audio, video or images to expose inequities and inspire social justice. For further information please see and use the Indymedia website.
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VOCES ARGENTINAS/ARGENTINA VOICES (16 minutes)
2002 Conscious Cinema/Dylan Howitt and Zoe Young
Argentina Voices documents the rising frustration of the dispossessed population in
Argentina with their president and government. As their anger grows, they
decide to protest, but are met head-on by the police, whose brutality
shows no mercy for their plight.
DOS VECES LA VIDA (10 Mins) - New Addition
- is a personal insight by a filmmaker into the predicament of his immigrant father recently arrived in the UK. In 1936, Siegmar Haase fled from Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Argentina. In 2002 at the age of 70, Siegmar and his wife were forced by the crisis and violence in Argentina to sell all their possessions and take the return journey to Europe. Intimately filmed by Diego Haase, this is a documentary about forced economic migration and its impact on a family.
LA FABRICA ES NUESTRA/THE FACTORY IS OURS (25 minutes)
2003 Grupo de Boedo Films and Contraimagen
“La Fabrica es Nuestra” documents the first seizure of the Brukman factory. In November 2002, the police, with the support of the municipal and judicial authorities, force their way into the Brukman factory in an effort to remove the workers who have taken it over. But supporters of the workers from local neighborhood assemblies, political parties, and social organisations surround the factory and frustrate the efforts of the police
to kick the workers out.
OBRERAS SIN PATRON/WORKERS WITHOUT BOSSES (20 minutes)
2003 Collectiva Kino/Nuestra Lucha
“Obreras Sin Patron” documents the second seizure of the Brukman factory and the continued resistance of the workers. In April 2003, the police take over the factory in a surprise attack. Students, artists, unions, neighborhood assemblies, and political parties join together with the Brukman workers to help recover the factory. When negotiations with the authorities fail, thousands of people gather to demolish the police barricades surrounding the factory. The violent repression that follows only reinforces the workers’ determination to keep control of Brukman.
THE BRIDGE - EL PUENTE (46 minutes)
2002 Myriam Angueira
A powerful story from Corrientes, in Argentina's interior. It's 1999, and local teachers have been waiting to be paid for many months. They decide to take action to defend their most basic services. They occupy a bridge and an epic struggle ensues. And so it
is that in the streets and bridges of Argentina a new consciousness is being born. Two years later, a popular rebellion causes the fall of the administration of De La Rua.
THE FILMS WILL BE SHOWN ON THE 17TH OF NOVEMBER, STARTING AT 7:30 IN THE GALLERY AREA OF THE SPITZ. 109 COMMERCIAL STREET E1.
Indymedia is an independent network of media collectives dedicated to empowering people to use print, audio, video or images to expose inequities and inspire social justice. For further information please see and use the Indymedia website.
www.indymedia.org.uk
