Imagining otherwise is at the heart of this film program. Fantasies about destroying capitalist edifices, rectifying past harm, and the tenacity of resistance take front and center.
Content warning: Discussion of self harm (Son of Samoa), Flashing lights (Mahdi Amel in Gaza)
Accessibility: Closed captions available
Thank you to our screening partner: Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center
Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?
Imagining otherwise is at the heart of this film program. Fantasies about destroying capitalist edifices, rectifying past harm, and the tenacity of resistance take front and center.
Content warning: Discussion of self harm (Son of Samoa), Flashing lights (Mahdi Amel in Gaza)
Accessibility: Closed captions available
Thank you to our screening partner: Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center
Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?