How have developing media and technologies helped artists drive forward the spirit of activism? These politically motivated short films were created with the help of automatic and accessible materials—from early video and TV in the late ’60s to live-streaming and social media today. Copresented with the Walker Art Center's Expanding the Frame: Imagination Is Power, April 5 - 21.
Evidence of the Evidence: Utilizing rarely seen video recordings shot by a state trooper, this film offers a ground level account of the Attica prison uprising in 1971.
Director(s): Alex Johnston | Runtime: 22 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Short Films about Learning: The Belfast Exposed community archive contains images recording political, cultural and social change in Northern Ireland over these 3 decades.
Director(s): Michael Hanna | Runtime: 10 min | Country: Ireland | 2015 | English
Violence of a Civilization without Secrets, The: A reflection on indigenous sovereignty, the undead violence of museum archives, and postmortem justice through the case of the "Kennewick Man.”
Director(s): Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Jackson Polys | Runtime: 10 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Kind of a Symbol: Richard Spencer getting punched in the face: It's kind of a symbol. WARNING: Stroboscopic effects. And Richard Spencer's stupid face.
Director(s): Hannah Frank | Runtime: 1 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Day and a Button, A: When you can no longer rebel and your country turns into a big prison... relax. You’re in Damascus!
Director(s): Azza Hamwi | Runtime: 7 min | Country: Syria | 2015 | Arabic
For The Students Who Stood at The Statue (The Forcing no. 7): This video is dedicated to the small group of anti-racist student protesters who stood their ground against a torch-wielding mob on August 11, 2017.
Director(s): Lydia Moyer | Runtime: 3 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Emergency Needs: Emergency Needs (2007) is a 16mm film about the mayor, Carl Stokes, of Cleveland, Ohio USA dealing with the July 1968 uprising.
Director(s): Kevin Jerome Everson | Runtime: 7 min | Country: USA | 2007 | English
Dislocation Blues: An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
Director(s): Sky Hopinka | Runtime: 17 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English