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not watched it yet, but

Emma Goldman, an Exceedingly Dangerous Woman (I think it's a private tracker)

'If you ask for my life, I will stab you in the heart'

Four black and white camera angles of a subway station; no sound. A train arrives, people get on and off. The lights of the next train shine from the tunnel. An agitated man descends onto the tracks. His final moments are recorded in monochrome, 15 frames per second, 13, 14, 15.

In 2006's “The Description of Bankruptcy”, director Lee Kang Hyun carries forward the haunting violence of this moment, the despair of an anonymous fate and the events which would compel it to provoke a reflection on the financial crisis of 1997. Images of Seoul are overlapped with radio channel chatter, news reports stream lifestyle advice atop cityscapes. Everyday life passes amongst industrial scenes; an industrial press rapidly stamps paper. One man relates his success story: 'got it...by betting only 100 won', another voice implores us to be mindful of the future: 'If you want to succeed...you need a wise eye to see your outcomes critically'. Traffic passes through Seoul, and more advice: 'People who don't smile a lot have wrinkles in their face', now a stone-faced man stacks papers in a printing machine, his gloves are stained red. '...smile out loud as much as you can. One who smiles a lot also has less chance for mental illnesses such as hypochondria.' Workers steam-press clothing in a factory while the radio confidently declares: 'The time has come when all power comes from the people....

In economically burgeoning South Korea, individuals are expendable. Rhythmical editing and dryly ironic narration convert the arid wind evaporating individuality from society into a visual guerilla poem.

You hear so many horrible accidents and crimes from TV and newspapers. But they don't surprise you any more. You may think they are just a part of your daily life. Since around 2000 in Korea, there have been tons of strange murders. There are no killers and no suspects, but people are murdered every day. Someone calls them, "social murders". However, these everyday terrible crimes do not shock anybody. They are just filling a small corner of a newspaper. No alarms and no surprises. No efforts to stop them. What has thrown you into such a dead apathy?

Soap dramas are still attracting many people all over the world. It means old orders are so strong and sturdy that they are moving the world even after they seem to have disappeared.

"Kansai Kouen" is a documentary and ongoing project dedicated to inform and connect concerned people with the struggle of the No-juku-sha (park squatters and/or rough sleepers) for living in human dignity in Osaka and all over Japan. We believe that Kansai Kouen can help people approach this issue as well as provide the chance to connect and show solidarity with the No-juku-sha, their proud and interesting way of life, actions and resistance. We hope that "Kansai Kouen" can serve as an instrument for articulation and reflection on the inside and outside of public space, day labor, precarity and the struggle of the No-juku-sha. Everywhere in parks and on the river banks of Osaka rivers, one sees blue tents or barracks covered with blue plastic tarps, at times scattered throughout park areas, sometimes lined up in rows, or united to form small communities. The term homelessness only insufficiently describes the situation of these 「nojyukusha」, the campers in the rough. These squatters are the daily inhabitants of public space. But just as Japanese society has traditionally little known nor appreciated public space as a public forum, likewise are squatters and homeless people, who live in these spaces, disrespected.

The video essay Public Blue was produced in collaboration with Nojyukusha and supporters in Osaka. Public Blue follows their political action and sketches impressions of the Japanese understanding of the public and the political. Used now as a tool during the struggle against evictions of tents in Osaka, the documentary also becomes a vehicle of articulation for those who are living on the outside of Japanese society.

http://www.kansaikouen.org

catch wrote:

not watched it yet, but

Emma Goldman, an Exceedingly Dangerous Woman (I think it's a private tracker)

It's shite. They do ok up until Emma's re-exile from Russia, at which point they portray her as a lonely whiny professional anti-communist. No mention of her work supporting exiles and political prisoners, no mention of her work with the CNT. The bad thing is, the producers had access to the Goldman papers so it was clearly a political decision. NOT recommended.

--- Le Fond de l'air est rouge
Chris Marker. 1977

Le Fond de l'air est rouge is Marker's magnum opus: a 3-hour overview of the success and failure of the left during the 1960s and 70s. He brilliantly interweaves footage from the Vietnam War, May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, the Shah of Iran, Regis Debray, Salvador Allende, et alia.

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3629406/le_fond_de_l_air_est_rouge_(marker_1977)

Also, if anyone knows where to find Bastards of the Party (supposedly deals with the relationship between COINTELPRO and the rise of Crips/Bloods), I'm interested in seeing it.

Can anyone get me Land and Freedom?...

Spent the day watching that. Top notch stuff. Che really was great.

Is there a torrent for the Gama video?*

For those not in the know the party of the working class saw turkish lads being ripped off by Gama - Party TD Joe Higgins saves the day and gets a kings chair.

Lenin Lives!