Emma Goldman: Abigail Child’s Acts And Intermissions +

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Saturday, April 08, 2017

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8:30 PM - 10:30 PM

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Screening

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Other Cinema

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Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA

Comes now the West Coast premiere of Child’s marvelous re-mediation of the life and work of Emma Goldman, arguably the mother of American Anarchism. Abby is out here from NYC with her hour-long collage-essay, charging the discussion with her enlightened aesthetic of poetry, the archive, and experimental montage. As the Most Dangerous Woman Alive, Goldman’s life is seen as an ongoing negotiation of revolutionary purity and personal freedom, a complexity that Child mirrors in her own formal strategies. She layers multiple fragments of Emma’s liberatory legacy--from archive, from re-enactment, and from observational cinema--her speculative play with the revolutionary ideas extending to the present moment of feminist revolt! Opening: The Future Is Behind You (20 min.), a John Zorn-scored cine-poem which also celebrates Child’s insatiable visual curiosity in the endlessly generative integration of past and present 16mm sources.*$8

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§Acts and Intermissions: A Failed Experiment

by Neil Farber

Tue, Sep 19, 2017 7:28PM

I rarely post a negative review about anything, but my wife and I just saw this film, and as long time activists who have been around anarchism for many years and who both are very familiar with Emma Goldman, her life and her work, we both came away feeling that seeing this film was a waste of time. It is a hodgepodge of footage, much of which seems not to bear any real relation to the subject at hand, and fails to convey any real picture of who Emma Goldman was in any sort of historic context. It also misses key facts (e.g. the film regularly refers to 'Sasha' without mentioning that his full name was Alexander Berkman and a very accomplished writer and organizer in his own right), jumble the timeline of events at several points and to us did a poor job of tying Emma Goldman to today's struggles. I am sure that the film maker meant well, but for us, this piece of 'experimental documentary' missed the mark badly.

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