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“Be realistic, demand the impossible!” Cinema, Surrealism, Marxism

Nov 10—Nov 16, 2023

Throwing food, throwing bombs, throwing tantrums, throwing parties, throwing Molotov cocktails. Although neither Marxism nor Surrealism are taken as dogma, they inform the collisions of experimental aesthetics and radical politics in this series of anarchic pastiche, newsreel documentation, and militant poetics. Gathered under a title drawn from one of the many surrealist slogans that accompanied the worker strikes and student uprisings of May ‘68 are hybrid documentaries, essay films, and unorthodox fictions. Featuring cinematic responses to the upheavals of the 60s and 70s, these works from both the anti-colonial Third World and European left reanimate an urgent political imagination.

Programmed by Yasmina Price

Leadership support for
BAM Access Programs provided by
the Jerome L. Greene Foundation

Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
the Ford Foundation and
The Thompson Family Foundation

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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask + Nucleus of the Great Union

Nov 10—Nov 16, 2023

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask + Nucleus of the Great Union
Nov 10—Nov 16, 2023

Rare images, intimate footage, and experimental filmmaking explore the legacies of Frantz Fanon and Richard Wright, two crucially influential anti-colonialist thinkers of the 20th century.

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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask + Nucleus of the Great Union
Nov 10—Nov 16, 2023

Frantz Fanon and Richard Wright’s legacies are captured in rare images and intimate footage.

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Daisies + Ilha das Flores

Nov 11—Nov 13, 2023

Daisies + Ilha das Flores
Nov 11—Nov 13, 2023

From the life cycle of a single tomato to a spoiled pair of sisters’ smash-it-all rebellion, what role does food play in revolt, dissent, and societal inequality?

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Daisies + Ilha das Flores
Nov 11—Nov 13, 2023

What role does food play in revolt, dissent, and societal inequality?

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Man with a Movie Camera + Statues Also Die

Nov 11—Nov 15, 2023

Man with a Movie Camera + Statues Also Die
Nov 11—Nov 15, 2023

Political documentary luminaries Chris Marker and Dziga Vertov interrogate urban life, colonialism, art, and the camera itself through cinematic subversion.

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Man with a Movie Camera + Statues Also Die
Nov 11—Nov 15, 2023

Pioneers of documentary filmmaking interrogate city life, colonialism, art, and the camera itself.

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Nov 11—Nov 15, 2023

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Nov 11—Nov 15, 2023

This Oscar-winning film from absurdist auteur Luis Buñuel takes aim at French high society as an elegant dinner party slips down a series of surreal rabbit holes.

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Nov 11—Nov 15, 2023

Buñuel makes mincemeat of upper-crust social rituals in this absurdist masterpiece.

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A Grin Without a Cat

Sun, Nov 12, 2023

A Grin Without a Cat
Sun, Nov 12, 2023

Chris Marker’s epic film essay traces the rise and fall of leftist revolutions across the globe in a politically dynamic and visually intoxicating cinematic collage.

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A Grin Without a Cat
Sun, Nov 12, 2023

Chris Marker considers the rise and fall of leftist revolutions across the globe.

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The Phantom of Liberty

Nov 12—Nov 14, 2023

The Phantom of Liberty
Nov 12—Nov 14, 2023

Luis Buñuel mercilessly mocks the idea of normalcy in this audacious surrealist fantasia.

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The Phantom of Liberty
Nov 12—Nov 14, 2023

Luis Buñuel mercilessly mocks the idea of normalcy in this audacious surrealist fantasia.

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Calcutta 71

Nov 12—Nov 16, 2023

Calcutta 71
Nov 12—Nov 16, 2023

An ageless young man walks through history, poverty, squalor, and death in this Bengali art film by renowned Indian director Mrinal Sen.

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Calcutta 71
Nov 12—Nov 16, 2023

An ageless young man walks through history, squalor, and death in this Bengali art film.

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Calcutta 71

Nov 12—Nov 16, 2023

Calcutta 71
Nov 12—Nov 16, 2023

An ageless young man walks through history, poverty, squalor, and death in this Bengali art film by renowned Indian director Mrinal Sen.

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Calcutta 71
Nov 12—Nov 16, 2023

An ageless young man walks through history, squalor, and death in this Bengali art film.

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La Chinoise + Communists Like Us

Mon, Nov 13, 2023

La Chinoise + Communists Like Us
Mon, Nov 13, 2023

Jean-Luc Godard’s radical 1967 satire La Chinoise screens alongside a video art piece that uses it as a jumping off point.

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La Chinoise + Communists Like Us
Mon, Nov 13, 2023

Jean-Luc Godard’s radical 1967 satire screens alongside a video art piece it inspired.

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The Sun Quartet + Be Silent, For The Ears Of God Are Everywhere

Tue, Nov 14, 2023

The Sun Quartet + Be Silent, For The Ears Of God Are Everywhere
Tue, Nov 14, 2023

Two radical film collectives—the Otolith Group and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos—offer video meditations on nature, violence, and revolution through visually textured, multimedia footage.

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The Sun Quartet + Be Silent, For The Ears Of God Are Everywhere
Tue, Nov 14, 2023

These visually textured video projects meditate on nature, violence, and revolution.

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The Society of the Spectacle + Now!

Wed, Nov 15, 2023

The Society of the Spectacle + Now!
Wed, Nov 15, 2023

Based on a text by Guy Debord and a song by Lena Horne, these films repurpose existing footage to provide sharp commentaries on the relationship between images and power.

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The Society of the Spectacle + Now!
Wed, Nov 15, 2023

Remix filmmaking provides sharp commentary on the relationship between image and power.

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Entranced Earth

Nov 11—Nov 16, 2023

Canceled
Entranced Earth
Nov 11—Nov 16, 2023

This poetic account of social upheaval and political corruption is a pillar of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement.

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Entranced Earth
Nov 11—Nov 16, 2023

Glauber Rocha directs this satirical portrait of political strife in a fictitious country.

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