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Category Archives: Film

08/05/2012
by Natasha

Closing night grand finale

EXCLUSIVE Live score of Eisenstein’s Strike. As part of the Bread and Roses Centennial celebrations, The Cabinet of Living Cinema will perform a live score to Sergei Eisenstein’s seminal …

04/05/2012
by Afshin

‘Carry Greenham Home’ + ‘Silo Walk’

‘Silo Walk’ is a silent moving image work that re-visits routes inhabited by female anti-nuclear protestors at Greenham Common’s American military airbase, since transformed into a nature walk …

01/05/2012
by studioSTRIKE

NEW DATE: The Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar gives an account of the anti-poll tax demonstration on 31st March 1990, one that is radically different from that presented by TV news. Eyewitnesses tell …

26/04/2012
by studioSTRIKE

London Screen Study Collection

As part of the Bread and Roses Film Festival celebrations, we will be travelling back in time with some films of the London Screen Study Collection newly discovered …

21/04/2012
by studioSTRIKE

Made in Dagenham

The film stars the award winning Sally Hawkins as Rita O’Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to …

16/04/2012
by Afshin

The Uprising of 34 + Q&A

UK PREMIERE. In 1934, hundreds of thousands of Southern textile workers participated in the largest single-industry strike in history. Many lost their jobs; some lost their lives. Dozens of …

08/04/2012
by Afshin

Award winning: The Interrupters

Shot over the course of one year, The Interrupters are: Ameena, Cobe and Eddie, all who have stories and histories of violence and gang activity. These “violence interrupters” …

06/04/2012
by Afshin

Poets of Protest, Q&A, live poetry

EXCLUSIVE sneak preview of work in progress Al Jazeera documentaries. Poetry in the Middle East lives and breathes like few other places. An open forum discussion …

30/03/2012
by Afshin

Black Power Mix Tape + Q&A

The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The film combines music, startling 16mm …

29/03/2012
by Afshin

The Reluctant Revolutionary+Q&A

“A breathless pace, a sense of black humor and a great central character make The Reluctant Revolutionary one of the most immediate and accessible descriptions of the Arab …

26/03/2012
by Afshin

Award winning Miles Apart + Q&A

Miles Apart is an observational documentary, intimately looking at the clash of different generations and cultures in a rapidly changing China. Twelve years ago, Laomao and his …