- Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerillas, and Digital Ninjas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism.
- Brink of Reality
New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
From angles both practical and philosophical, Peter Steven examines the business of making documentaries in Canada and reaching audiences with them.
- Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
Resource Type: Film/Video
Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
- Creating Your Own Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
Alternatives and suggestons for creating independent media.
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- A heritage of pornography
Article in the Body Politic, January-February 1983
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Tom Waugh reports on his exploration of some of the films in the collection of Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, and considers what they might tell us about gay cultural history.
- The Miners' Hymns
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2010
The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
- Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2005
Our Daily Bread (original German title: Unser taglich Brot) is a 2005 documentary film, depicted how modern food production companies employ technology to produce food on large scales. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject. The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are purposely not shown. The director's goal is to provide a realistic view on the internal workings of multiple food production companies in our modern society.
- Proposal for a Billingual Half-Hour Film
(on Sudbury women during the INCO strike)
Resource Type: Article
This proposal for production of a film about the wives of Sudbury's striking workers is addressed to a variety of church, labour and women's organizations.
- Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Should artwork be categorized and presumably appreciated according to whether it represents a male or female, black or white perspective? Many critics, influenced by the prevailing ideology, set up this basic standard: women gain more from art produced by women, Jews from work created by Jews, African-Americans from "African-American art," etc. In ideological terms, these critics, in their obsession with race, are spouting a conception of society and art identified historically with the extreme right.
- Reeling
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Save the feature before it explodes
Several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1920s are being fully restored
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Nine films Hitchcock directed during the 1920s will be restored by archivists at the British Film Institute before the volatile nitrate reels combust. The film archivists' work and the hirstory of the profession are chronicled in this article.
- Video & DVD Guide 2003
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- Video Movie Guide 1993
Resource Type: Book
- Video The Changing World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- "We don't have films you can eat"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
An interview with the members of DEC Films, a project of the Development Education Centre. Originally published in Jump Cut, No. 28, April 1983, pp. 37-40.
- Working class cinema: a video guide
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Libcom.org's guide to working class films and TV shows, showing class struggles, revolutionary situations and everyday lives.
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