Screening 1 | Militant Cinema
Screening
October 30, 2023 at 6:30–9:30pm
In-Person
La lumière collective
7080 Rue Alexandra #506, Montréal, QC H2S 3J5
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This screening focuses on militant cinema’s role in the creation and circulation of revolutionary and anticolonial imaginaries and emancipatory politics, and on how this cinema persists in the form of contemporary and lively archives that resist visual displacement.
The programming of the screening series Militant Cinema was finalized prior to Israel’s genocidal besiegement of Gaza which has occurred as yet another episode in the ongoing colonial occupation of Palestine over the past 75 years. We had envisioned this series to contribute to critical and creative usage of film as an emancipatory tool against colonial mindset and aggression: to shed light on how archival erasures can and has orchestrated ethnic cleansing, land dispossession, and fabricated historical amnesia; facilitating the apartheid military state of Israel’s unlawful and criminal activities over the past 75 years.
The screening series of Militant Cinema now is happening in a state of historical catastrophe and the images that have been used in the programmed films are eerily echoing their past specters. We aim to use this program as a platform to further contextualize the current genocidal war inflicted against Gazans and other Palestinians in land and in the diaspora, within the larger historical events that these films in the program have brought forward in the light of their disappearance from collective memory and public knowledge.