Autonomy and Agency

A.T.A. Gallery's OTHER CINEMA presents an election season double-featurette: Produced by the Franco-American collective Bernadette Corporation and set during the recent Genoa protests, "GET RID OF YOURSELF" is an intellectually and politically provocative cine-essay on What Is to Be Done in the face of all-consuming globalization. Equal parts Godard, Debord, Deleuze, and Bakunin, the speculative discourse plumbs the rationale for both traditional Left and Black Bloc actions via thrilling street scenes, comic philosophical interludes, and a charming tête à tête with an apparently radicalized Chloë Sevigny. This hour-plus post-Situationist tract represents a brave initiative in the crucial arguments around strategy and tactics. PLUS another meditation on the ravages of transnational Capital, Erik Gandini’s lush and rhythmic political tone-poem "SURPLUS", with appearances by the Eugene anarchist John Zerzan and Microsoft cheerleader Steve Ballmer. Free wine, bread, cheese.