Tickets $10. Visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10563520 The Clamor of the Excluded Seven films, six decades, seven countries Voices and visions of peoples on the edge and over the edge Co-curated by Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen Starting with a first presentation at the 2008 Oberhausen Film Festival, Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen—artists, filmmakers, writers, educators, troublemakers—have curated and exhibited multiple programs of short films that critically and/or actively represent resistance to power all over the world. Carried out over decades as the project 'Disruptive Film,' the duo’s groundbreaking research demonstrates not only the variety of everyday resistance strategies, but also a surprising diversity of experimental approaches to short-form nonfiction media. Their second selection for REDCAT (since their presentation in 2016) includes 'Crowded' by Alonzo Crawford (1978), shot in a Baltimore prison, 'Xochimilco 1914' by Los Viumasters (2010) from Mexico, 'Crude Living on Oil in Syria' by Rozh Ahmad (2014), and their own 'How Do Animals and Plants Live?' (2020) shot in a destroyed migrant squat in Greece. --------------- Program: Alonzo Crawford: Crowded 1978, 10 min, USA When the inmates of the grotesquely overcrowded Baltimore City Jail sued the city and state, African-American director Alonzo Crawford, on a budget of $400, documented conditions inside - and on the strength of that unyieldingly attentive visual evidence, the prisoners won. --------------- Aryan Kaganof: Threnody for the Victims of Marikana 2014, 27 min, South Africa On August 16, 2012 the South African Police opened fire on a crowd of striking platinum workers, killing 34 and injuring 78. This three-part film uses symphonic and other music, found footage, theoretical analysis, and irony to arrive at a new understanding, both philosophical and visceral, of how the massacre could have happened - under a government ruled by the once-revolutionary ANC. --------------- Millner & Larsen: How Do Animals and Plants Live? 2020, 29 min, USA While inquiring into the forcible eviction and immediate demolition of the self-organized anarchist-supported migrant squat Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki, Greece, in July 2016, this experimental video essay extrapolates on the proposition that “no one is illegal” in the renewed if fragile context of the common. --------------- Rozh Ahmad: Crude Living on Oil in Syria 2014, 20 min, Syria The journalist Rozh Ahmad - at a ramshackle roadside refinery - relentlessly portrays the terrifying despoliation of a village, a people, and a landscape all at once, caught in the pincers of an endless war. --------------- Kamran Shirdel: Tehran is the Capital of Iran 1966, 17.40 min, Iran This film, censored even before it was completed, sets affecting, often harrowing images of the discarded urban poor against recitations of official reports and schoolbooks. Shirdel’s searing vision was undoubtedly seasoned by study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. At considerable cost to his career, he inaugurated an Iranian version of neo-realism - a take-no-prisoners style of direction. --------------- Zelimir Zilnik: Black Film 1971, 14 min, Yugoslavia In a last-ditch gamble to “solve the homeless problem” in the workers’ state of Yugoslavia, the filmmaker invites six homeless men (ignored by the “socialist” government) into his own apartment … And lives to tell the tale. --------------- Los Viumasters: Xochimilco 1914 2010, 4.5 min, Mexico On the morning of December 4th, 1914, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata met for the first time. An original stenographic record of their conversation, just hours before they took control of Mexico City, exists. A mere century later, this playful film animates the words of these revolutionary heroes and their historic repercussions.