Rancho California (por favor)
Premiering in the Frontier section at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, John T. Caldwell’s experimental, ethnographic documentary explores the internal borders that extend well beyond the international line between Mexico and America, sharply dividing migrants in Orange and North San Diego Counties from the affluent suburbs that depend on their labor. In ravines and […]
Self and Others
A queer reordering of cinematic gestures, Self and Others is a study of the visual language of orientation fluidity as captured through the lens of film history.
Studs Terkel on the Haymarket Affair
At a celebration in Chicago’s Haymarket Square honoring the 110-year anniversary of the uprising, author and journalist Studs Terkel (“Working”) speaks to the assembled crowd: “You know why you’re working 8 hours a day? Because four guys in Chicago got hanged, FOR YOU!” Starting May 1, 1886, labor unions across the United States began a […]
Suspensions, Infinite
Through an arrangement of deprecated labor forms, this film uses one hundred years of an Iberian family’s labor history to portray the economic and geographic transitions of education-deprived agricultural workers between the fall of a dictatorship and the formation of the European Union and the first dot com bubble in in New York City.
OVID-20
“OVID-20” is a call for action, a cinepamphlet poem of the ID(s) and id of contemporary society struck by COVID-19 but also of the broader struggle against the state and capital and their apparatuses. Language as positive virus, memory and weapon for emancipation and autonomy. Music composed and performed by Mayakov+sky Platform. All videos and photos […]
Oakland Commune
The J28 offensive and the battle of Oak Street during Occupy Oakland – Oakland Commune in 2012. [Field data to allocate by admin] Countries: USA Languages: English Subtitles:
LOS 33 Y ELLA
LOS 33 Y ELLA is a decolonizing endeavor (inspired by the incident in Chile with the 33 miners), an experimental documentary (in the tradition of el teatro campesino, theater of the absurd, commedia dell’ arte and rasquache aesthetics). The film is constructed as a collective poem/play (with visual/concrete poetry subtitles) written/performed in the languages Spanish, […]
Dark Cell Harlem Farm
Set against the backdrop of the long history of the Texas prison system–from Juneteenth to Covid–Dark Cell Harlem Farm explores the death by suffocation of eight Black men at a prison plantation in 1913. Combining readings of primary source materials and personal reflections by formerly incarcerated individuals, footage of the prison landscapes where the incident […]
THE CHILDREN REVOLTS
A poetic documentary that chronicles the occupation (that the Platform was also part of) of a space, that was once a free school for Black and Brown youth called Emiliano Zapata Street Academy High School and the struggles for free public education in Oakland through the lens of this autonomous space and its remarkable architectural metamorphosis […]
Reading Aloud: What Is Power? by Fred Dewey
The late Fred Dewey’s essay “What Is Power?” rendered on film becomes something like a Greek chorus of very different voices, rising to affirm what we find hardest to believe at this moment: that power does not in fact reside among the powerful but is always there for we, the people, to reclaim. This film […]