Free Talk: The Revolution Will Be Filmed
58th New York Film Festival
September 17 - October 11, 2020
To expand on the timely questions raised by NYFF58 selections The Monopoly of Violence, Mangrove, and Red, White and Blue, we’re bringing together a group of film artists, writers, and scholars for a conversation about the cinematic representation of police brutality and revolutionary protest.
This talk has concluded. Check back on our YouTube channel soon for the full conversation!
Multiple films in this year’s NYFF contend with global protest movements and the fight against police brutality: in the Main Slate, Mangrove and Red, White and Blue from Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe anthology chronicle the racist police violence experienced by London’s West Indian community in the 1970s and ’80s; David Dufresne’s Spotlight selection, The Monopoly of Violence, documents the state repression leveled against France’s “yellow vest” protesters. To expand on the timely questions raised by these films, we’re bringing together a group of film artists and writers for a conversation about the cinematic representation of police brutality and revolutionary protest. Participants include Courttia Newland (co-writer, Small Axe anthology); Bertrand Faivre (producer, The Monopoly of Violence); Blair McClendon (writer and filmmaker); Melissa Gira Grant (staff writer, The New Republic).
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