52m; U.S.
Director: Renée Bergan and Mark Schuller
Cast: Marie-Jeanne Solange Frisline Thérèse Hélène
Synopsis: The compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers give the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti: inhumane working/living conditions, violence, poverty, lack of education, and poor health care. While the film offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women’s subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance demonstrates these are global struggles. Finally, through their collective activism, these women demonstrate that despite monumental obstacles in a poor country like Haiti, collective action makes change possible.
Contact: TÈT ANSANM PRODUCTIONS 139 Clinton Ave. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11205 347-599-1116 (phone/fax) info@potomitan.net
38m; U.S.
Director: Joris Ivens
Cast: William Adams and Stephen Vincent Benet
Synopsis: A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.
30m; U.S.
Director: John Hanson & Rob Nilsson
Synopsis: History of the populist, agrarian Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, 1915-1921. Includes film segments made during that time, plus numerous stills.
58m; Czechoslovakia
Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov and others
Synopsis: Pravda was filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It’s one of those films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov – a Marxist film about the political situation after the ’68 revolution.
Directed by Joris Ivens
Release date(s) 10 March 1976 (Paris)
Running time 763 minutes
Country France
From MOMA.org:
“From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. The vast amount of footage they shot was edited into twelve films of varying lengths. Focusing on ordinary people spread over a wide geographic area—many of whom were living and working in collectives—the filmmakers recorded a unique moment in history, and also captured some of the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture.”
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/932
U.S.
30m
Director: Barbara Wolff
Synopsis: Exploitation of part-time faculty in American higher education.
In 1960 Edward R. Murrow made a television documentary about the plight of migrant farm workers. Harvest of Shame examined the working conditions and economic realities of those least respected but absolutely vital workers in the agricultural industry, the harvesters.
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Barbara Wolf Video Work
1709 Pomona Court
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone (513) 861-2462
Br_wolf@hotmail.com
98m; U.S.
Director: Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold
Synopsis (IMDB): The hazards of bio-accumulation, pollution, and the makeup of what we commonly hope are benign plastics are tackled in this documentary.
87m; U.S.
Director: Phil Donahue, Ellen Spiro
Synopsis (IMDB): The story of an injured American veteran returning home from the war Iraq is set against the backdrop of a critical indictment of the government’s handling of the U.S.-led invasion.
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