BANK JOB — Winter 2023 Season Opener with Special Guests!

Join Cinema Politica Concordia for our Winter season opener, the Montreal premiere of BANK JOB with special guests! A rollicking, playful and rebellious spirit infuses a UK art project that sets out to cancel debt — capitalism meet your creative match! This award-winning film is a great antidote to the current world disorder of profiteering and exploitation.

ABOUT THE FILM

BANK JOB

Dan Edelstyn & Hilary Powell / UK and Northern Ireland / 2021 / 1h27m / English

BANK JOB instigates and follows a community coming together to make their own currency, opening a bank in order to examine how money and debt is created in our economy and to ask important questions about how the system of money creation might be altered in their favour.

From both talking to economists and the local community BANK JOB looks at how debt is tied to even the most basic provisions—education, healthcare, housing—as all these are being accessed through credit in one way or another. The film argues that these debts are a result of a monetary system which is impoverishing multitudes by design, and which could be change if we, the public, can begin to understand the way money comes into existence.

EVENT DETAILS

Admission is by donation ($5-10 suggested). The venue is wheelchair accessible. In order to prevent the spreading of COVID 19, wearing a mask at Cinema Politica Concordia events is strongly recommended.