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Book Bloc!
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, April 2
7–10 pm
Interference Archive’s Book Bloc! exhibit features shields made here in New York by CUNY Graduate Center and Cooper Union students in their current struggles against tuition increases and instituting tuition, respectively, and in assertion of “free education for all.”
Book blocs in their present-day incarnation first appeared in Rome in November 2010 as part of demonstrations against drastic budget cuts to the country’s public university system. Italian students began actions, occupations, and blockades by using oversize, handmade, padded book covers as banners and shields. The tactic quickly spread to other parts of Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. As a book bloc press release from London in 2010 explains, “Books are our tools–we teach with them, we learn with them, we play with them, we create with them, we make love with them, and sometimes, we must fight with them.” |
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Insurgence
US premier
(Groupe d’action en cinéma Épopée, Canada, 141 mins., color, French with English subtitles)
Discussion with filmmakers follows the screening
Friday, April 5
7 – 10 pm
Interference Archive
Saturday, April 6
7 – 10 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)
Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, Lower Level 1
Insurgence, made by a collective of filmmakers and film craftspeople Épopée, is a documentary about the vast social mobilization in Quebec during the spring of 2012. Initially propeled by the student strike for accessible education, the scope of the movement soon broadened to take on the government, the impunity and violence of the Montreal police force, the exploitation of untapped natural resources, and the current economic system.
Right after Insurgence premiered in Montreal, Adam Szymanski observed in a blog post: “[The] screening was electric. Insurgence takes radical vérité approach that bears witness to the student strike from an act of solidarity. . . . As my colleague DL remarked afterwards: ‘It’s like cinema is dangerous again.’ . . . There’s a reason the cops came to bust up the congregation outside afterwards” (photo below by Thien).
http://insurgence.me/
$5 suggested donation (but no one turned away for lack of funds)
Insurgence is being shown in conjunction with Interference Archive’s exhibition Book Bloc!
Opening: Tuesday, April 2, 7–10 pm
Runs through Wednesday, April 24
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Create Your Own Book Bloc!
Sunday, April 14
noon–5 pm
An interactive afternoon of two book bloc artshops and a slideshow discussion
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