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"The first session in an affordable film screening series from the Easton Cowfolk, exploring themes of radical resistance from global movements. Estrellas de la Línea follows a football team of Guatemalan sex workers who spark controversy across the country when they’re kicked out of their local league. A complex and affecting portrait."
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A event on Monday 10th November. The event starts at 18:30.
The Cowfolks' radical film club are back with a new series of screenings, entitled 'Movement is the Movement'.
Over the next few months, we will be screening films around Bristol that highlight current and historical expressions of physical and spiritual resistance, embodied within the organised movements of sport, dance, prayer, and performance.
The Easton Cowfolk build community power through sport and socialisation, based upon a foundation of solidarity and radical inclusivity that informs our community work and political organising.
We will draw from this experience, inviting various members of the Cowfolk's membership and wider network to inform collective discussions to follow our films, giving participants concrete steps forward that use the works presented for inspiration and agitation.
Audience members are encouraged to continue engaging with us over the course of the screening series, through our network and/or by returning to multiple screenings if you can!
We intend to conceptualise and coordinate campaigns and potential actions collectively with participants in our screenings, realising the abilities of films, sports, arts, and movement to provide spaces and thrust for revolutionary organisation.
SCREENING ONE: DIGNITY ON THE LINE
'Ghost Dance' (2019) dir. Emilia Izquierdo, UK. 5 min.
"Using as base Thomas Edison’s 1894 filming of the Sioux American Indian ‘Ghost Dance’, the piece explores dance as a form of resistance against the imposition of foreign powers, using footage of the Sioux dancing against the white settlers in North America and protest dances in other locations including Gaza, South Africa and Peru."
'Estrellas de la Línea' (2006) dir. Chema Rodríguez, Guatemala. 95 min. CW: discussions of sexual violence.
"Valeria, Vilma, Mercy, and the rest of their companions dream of being treated with dignity and an end to the violence they suffer daily. They are sex workers on La Línea, the train tracks that cross Guatemala City. To draw attention to their problems, to police harassment, and to unpunished murders, they form a soccer team, train for weeks, and enter a local tournament, only to be expelled for being prostitutes. The expulsion sparks heated controversy in the country, with both rejection and support that transform their lives overnight."
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Over the next few months, we will be screening films around Bristol that highlight current and historical expressions of physical and spiritual resistance, embodied within the organised movements of sport, dance, prayer, and performance.
The Easton Cowfolk build community power through sport and socialisation, based upon a foundation of solidarity and radical inclusivity that informs our community work and political organising.
We will draw from this experience, inviting various members of the Cowfolk's membership and wider network to inform collective discussions to follow our films, giving participants concrete steps forward that use the works presented for inspiration and agitation.
Audience members are encouraged to continue engaging with us over the course of the screening series, through our network and/or by returning to multiple screenings if you can!
We intend to conceptualise and coordinate campaigns and potential actions collectively with participants in our screenings, realising the abilities of films, sports, arts, and movement to provide spaces and thrust for revolutionary organisation.
SCREENING ONE: DIGNITY ON THE LINE
'Ghost Dance' (2019) dir. Emilia Izquierdo, UK. 5 min.
"Using as base Thomas Edison’s 1894 filming of the Sioux American Indian ‘Ghost Dance’, the piece explores dance as a form of resistance against the imposition of foreign powers, using footage of the Sioux dancing against the white settlers in North America and protest dances in other locations including Gaza, South Africa and Peru."
'Estrellas de la Línea' (2006) dir. Chema Rodríguez, Guatemala. 95 min. CW: discussions of sexual violence.
"Valeria, Vilma, Mercy, and the rest of their companions dream of being treated with dignity and an end to the violence they suffer daily. They are sex workers on La Línea, the train tracks that cross Guatemala City. To draw attention to their problems, to police harassment, and to unpunished murders, they form a soccer team, train for weeks, and enter a local tournament, only to be expelled for being prostitutes. The expulsion sparks heated controversy in the country, with both rejection and support that transform their lives overnight."
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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