PROJECTILE: A festival of anarchist film and culture 16-18 June Newcastle

PROJECTILE: A festival of anarchist film and culture

16-18 June,
Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2BB
www.projectile.org.uk


ADMISSION & ACCOMODATION
Weekend pass: £25 waged or £5 waged
Individual films: suggested donation of £3.50, free
for asylum seekers
Discussions: Free
You can order your weekend passes in advance.
Otherwise all admission
is on
the door.
Crash pad accommodation is available – please tell us
in advance
though.

For more information, contact  info@projectile.org.uk


FRIDAY 16 JUNE
 http://www.projectile.org.uk/fri16/


Call in, get your tickets or pass, and have a drink.
5:30 onwards, Friday 16 June

THE ANGRY BRIGADE
7pm, Friday 16 June
With anarchist ideals and situationist-inspired
tactics, this urban
guerilla
group put the ruling class on notice with a series of
bloodless
bombings.
The police campaign against it that drew a dragnet
through the UK
anarchist
community.
The Angry Brigade/Persons Unknown (dir. Gordon Carr,
1974/1980, UK, 65
mins.)

COPS
8:10pm, Friday 16 June
Buster Keaton stars as an accidental anarchist leading
the filth on a
merry
chase in this raucous classic short.
Cops (dir. Buster Keaton, 1922, US, 18 mins.)

TROTS, ISLAMOPHOBIA & ANARCHISM [discussion]
8:30pm, Friday 16 June
Introduced by John from Projectile: let’s talk about
vanguardism,
Respect...and creating real alliances

LIBERTARIAS
9:30pm, Friday 16 June
This epic melodrama follows several very different
women drawn into the
Spanish Civil War. Their lives as fighters, friends
and lovers are set
against a backdrop of sexism, political backstabbing,
and eventually
tragedy.
Libertarias (dir. Vicente Aranda, 1996, Spain, 125
mins.)


SATURDAY 17 JUNE
 http://www.projectile.org.uk/sat17/


DURRUTI
11am, Saturday 17 June
Former railway worker Buenaventura Durruti exemplified
a new kind of
people’
s military “leader,” one who led through inspiration,
example and
discussion
rather than force and orders. This film is his story.
Durruti en la Revolucion España (dir. Paco Rios, 1998,
Spain, 60 mins.)

CLASS COMPOSITION AND THE NORTH EAST [discussion]
12:10pm, Saturday 17 June
with Dave Hopper (NUM) & Dave Douglas (NUM, Class War)

NESTOR MAHKNO - ANARCHY IN THE UKRAINE [talk]
2pm, Saturday 17 June
With a speaker from the Anarchist Federation

ANARCHISM AND YOUTH [discussion]
3pm, Saturday 17 June
led by Matt and other local anarchist youth

SQUATTING IN AMSTERDAM
5pm, Saturday 17 June
(dir. Hamish Campbell, 2003, Holland, 4 mins.)

WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF FIRE
5:05pm, Saturday 17 June
In the ‘80s, they were on the barricades together.
Twenty years later,
they’
ve gone their separate ways—until something unexpected
brings them
together
again. Packed with action, hilarity and even romance,
this is an
overlooked
gem.
What to Do in Case of Fire (dir. Gregor Schnitzler,
2001, Germany, 100
mins.)

MADE IN SECRET: THE STORY OF THE EAST VAN PORN
COLLECTIVE
7pm, Saturday 17 June
Not a porn film, but a sexy semi-documentary about
home-made erotica,
sexual
expression, and collective decision-making. Lo-fi
aesthetics and sweet
politics.
Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn
Collective (dir. One
Tiny
Whale, 2004, Canada, 86 mins.)

SOCIAL, PLUS MIDNIGHT MOVIE
8:30 onwards, Saturday 17 June
In Reagan-era America, an unemployed labourer stumbles
on the
horrifying
truth about the ruling class. A
situationist-influenced, politically
savvy
horror flick.
They Live! (dir. John Carpenter, 1988, US, 93 mins.)


SUNDAY 18 JUNE
 http://www.projectile.org.uk/sun18/


REBELLION IN PATAGONIA
11am, Sunday 18 June
What happens when life becomes unbearable because of
bosses and their
demands? The workers rebel… and the ruling class
retaliates. This
true-to-history drama tells of an uprising of
immigrant and indigenous
labourers in unforgiving, harsh Patagonia.
La Patagonia Rebelde (dir. Hector Olivera, Argentina,
1984, 109 mins.)

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND NEW TECHNOLOGY IN FILMMAKING
[workshop]
1pm, Sunday 18 June
Learn with Tomas about how free software and cheap,
easy to use
equipment
can help you bring your own visions to the cinema
screen!

SOCIAL CENTRES AND LOCAL CAMPAIGNING [discussion]
2pm, Sunday 18 June
Discussion on the social centres movement: are they
“movement ghettos”
or
great places to organise?

ROSSPORT SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN [talk]
3pm, Sunday 18 June
Speakers from the Rossport camp in Ireland talk about
trying to stop
Shell’s
high-pressure gas pipeline.

DEMOCRACY ISN’T BUILT ON DEMONSTRATORS’ BODIES
4pm, Sunday 18 June
Many young Israelis reject their right-wing
government’s efforts to
separate
them from their Palestinian neighbours with laws,
walls, and weapons.
This
short documentary provides a glimpse into the
anarchist underground in
Israel.
Democracy Isn’t Built on Demonstrators’ Bodies (Dir.
David Massey/It’s
All
Lies, 2004, Israel, 32 mins.)

FEEDBACK SESSION
4:30pm, Sunday 18 June
Where do we go from here? Got any suggestions? Want to
do your own
festival?

WINSTANLEY
5pm, Sunday 18 June
In 1649, Gerard Winstanley tried to take back common
lands for the
people’s
use through communal farming. This authentic and
gorgeously home-made
film
tells his tragic, yet inspirational story. A work of
art, not just
history.
Winstanley (dir. Kevin Brownlow/Andrew Mollo, 1975,
UK, 95 mins.)



** As ever, the programme – and even the venue – is
subject change.
Up-to-date information will be on the website **

For more information contact  info@projectile.org.uk
Financially supported by Northern Film & Media