A Future At Our Backs! Autonomy on Film
05 Dec 2012 - 16 Jan 2013
A FUTURE AT OUR BACKS! AUTONOMY ON FILM
5 December 2012- 16 January 2013
A Future At Our Backs! Autonomy on Film view original
Week 1 - Wednesday 5th December 2012, 7pm
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso)
(Elio Petri, 1971, Italy, 125 mins.)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven viscerally depicts the conflicts
between productivity and ‘the refusal of work’, the machine and
the body, production and reproduction, order and desire. “I was a
piecework labourer, I followed the politics of union, I worked for
productivity, I increased output, and now what have I become? I’ve
become a beast, a machine, a nut, a screw, a transmission belt, a pump!”
Week 2 - Wednesday 12th December, 7pm
The Suspended Years:
Movements and Political Journeys in Porto Marghera
(Manuela Pellarin, 2009, 49 mins.)
Based on testimonies with militant workers, The Suspended Years charts
the intense series of workers’ struggles that took place in and around
the chemical production plants of Porto Marghera in north eastern Italy
from the mid-1960s until the late 1970s. The movement began in the
factories but rapidly spread far beyond the factory walls to encompass
and question the whole of social life under capitalism.
Week 3 - Wednesday 9th January 2013, 7pm
School Without End (Scuola Senza Fine)
(Adriana Monti et al, Italy, 1983, 40 mins.)
School Without End follows a group of housewives who had undertaken
the ‘150 hours’ course, whereby employers conceded to paying for 150
hours of learning activities by employees. The women then continued
their education independently with seminars on literature, the body,
and the image.
Week 4 - Wednesday 16th January 2012, 7pm
We Want Roses Too (Vogliamo Anche La Rose)
(Alina Marazzi, Italy, 2007, 84 mins.)
Through archive material and the personal diaries of three women,
We Want Roses Too portrays the change brought on by the feminist
movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s. “In this film, I chose
to examine the history of women in Italy from the mid-1960s to the
late 1970s in order to relate it to our current present so charged with
conflicts and contradictions...”
5 December 2012- 16 January 2013
A Future At Our Backs! Autonomy on Film view original
Week 1 - Wednesday 5th December 2012, 7pm
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso)
(Elio Petri, 1971, Italy, 125 mins.)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven viscerally depicts the conflicts
between productivity and ‘the refusal of work’, the machine and
the body, production and reproduction, order and desire. “I was a
piecework labourer, I followed the politics of union, I worked for
productivity, I increased output, and now what have I become? I’ve
become a beast, a machine, a nut, a screw, a transmission belt, a pump!”
Week 2 - Wednesday 12th December, 7pm
The Suspended Years:
Movements and Political Journeys in Porto Marghera
(Manuela Pellarin, 2009, 49 mins.)
Based on testimonies with militant workers, The Suspended Years charts
the intense series of workers’ struggles that took place in and around
the chemical production plants of Porto Marghera in north eastern Italy
from the mid-1960s until the late 1970s. The movement began in the
factories but rapidly spread far beyond the factory walls to encompass
and question the whole of social life under capitalism.
Week 3 - Wednesday 9th January 2013, 7pm
School Without End (Scuola Senza Fine)
(Adriana Monti et al, Italy, 1983, 40 mins.)
School Without End follows a group of housewives who had undertaken
the ‘150 hours’ course, whereby employers conceded to paying for 150
hours of learning activities by employees. The women then continued
their education independently with seminars on literature, the body,
and the image.
Week 4 - Wednesday 16th January 2012, 7pm
We Want Roses Too (Vogliamo Anche La Rose)
(Alina Marazzi, Italy, 2007, 84 mins.)
Through archive material and the personal diaries of three women,
We Want Roses Too portrays the change brought on by the feminist
movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s. “In this film, I chose
to examine the history of women in Italy from the mid-1960s to the
late 1970s in order to relate it to our current present so charged with
conflicts and contradictions...”