INSURGENCE

En français

9pm Saturday June 7, 2014
FOFA Gallery Courtyard
Free Admission. Everyone Welcome.
bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on

Preliminary event to the 2014 edition of Encuentro, MANIFEST! Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas

Documentary about the vast social mobilization that took place in Quebec during the spring of 2012. Initially propelled 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.
The strength of the strike is rooted in anonymity. The movement allows the common to flow through dispersal, reaching into the solitude of each protester. Each one recognizes her situation in that of the others; affective resonance is transmuted to a point of fusion. Repression can only break up linear collectivities; here, at every turn, at every corner, the common returns in a swarm.

Groupe d’action en cinéma Épopée / CA / 2013 / 137 ‘ / French - English / S.T. English

Épopée is a collective of filmmakers and film craftspeople, created during the making of Men for Sale, a documentary about the lives of drug users and sex workers in Montreal. The group was also formed in the context of the digital revolution and the takeover of national cinemas by television and large distributors. Épopée reclaims the means of film production through a newfound creative and collective process.  In the Spring of 2012 groupe Épopée accompanied the student movement in their fight for education.  What resulted was the full-length film, Insurgence which was first presented in October 2012.