This was a festival of film throughout 2018 to explore the legacy of 1968 in the popular imagination. Organised by members of @radfilmnet.
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Here’s the trailer for our short #film Drifting with Debord. We’re Hoping to screen it in #festivals, #universities and to #activist groups over the next period. Get in touch if you want to arrange a screening! m.youtube.com/watch?v=PExLrJ…
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Join Ikon and @flatpack for the launch of This Way to the Revolution, a book investigating Birmingham in 1968, from activism and redevelopment to light-shows and rock. Author Ian Francis and contributors will discuss this period. Tuesday 10 December, 6-9pm ow.ly/Kvix50wRZMp
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SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!!DEADLINE 14th JUNE👉For #DFFF2019 we’re opening submissions to shorts of any theme. As always, shorts must be directed by women (we look favourably on films that feature multiple women crew members)👉filmfreeway.com/FemmoFilmFes…
#filmfestival #shortfilms
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Stamps commemorating the National Giro (issued in 1969). Set up by the GPO in 1968, it originally operated under the name of Post Office Giro #gpo #nationalgiro #nationalgirobank #stamps – at Manchester, England
"I left Birmingham University in 1968... I was told that Hair were looking for somebody"
Tim Curry smokes on the telly and talks about how he got to be Frankenfurter on stage and screen.
Via @openculture
openculture.com/2015/02/tim-…
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Friday 14 Dec 7pm 📡🎧#Resistance68 (Paris’18 edition): A Beginners Guide to the Art of Resistance. Then to now.. Un guide amateur sur le résistance du Mai 68. Radiotransmission.co.uk
@GeorgiouTolley #Resistance68
@RadioTransMiss1 #Art #Education #CreativeWeapons #Counterculture
'Raven Seek Thy Brother', the final part of Gavin Maxwell's Otter trilogy, is out today. The film inspired by the first book of the trilogy 'Ring of Bright Water' will be released in February 1969. #1968live
Twenty-two people have died in a fire at an upholstery factory in James Watt Street in Glasgow. Iron-barred windows prevented the escape of people who smashed at the windows with wooden chairs, trying to jump into the street. #1968live
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Chris Marker's A Grin Without A Cat is screening @IFI_Dub November 25th from 35mm print at 12.30pm. Marks the 50th anniversary of the events of May '68
Details & tickets here, w/ introduction from Martin McCabe
ifi.ie/frenchfest-1968-grin-…
Boston, Mass: Three men are killed during a violent break-in at the headquarters of the New England Grass Roots Organization (NEGRO) anti-poverty agency, including its founder Guido St Laurent. Animal Rescue League officers later return his guide dog to his family. #1968live
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To mark the 50th anniversary of London’s renowned Soho Theatre, @UniWestminster has invited its co-founder and original artistic director, Fred Proud to direct a reading of the theatre’s very first production! Book your tickets now! #BeingHuman18 beinghumanfestival.org/event…
Hollis Frampton presents 'A Lecture' at Hunter College in New York.
"Please turn out the lights. As long as we’re going to talk about films, we might as well do it in the dark." #1968live
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"Voices of #1968" goes on sale today!
Words from the struggles of the long 68 in 12 countries, selected and translated by @bjarkerisager, @smohandesi and myself. Posters, flyers, songs, manifestos, graffiti...
20% off from @PlutoPress with code 1968
@TodayIn1968 @RFN_1968
At the medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, two black American athletes chose their moment to stage their civil rights protest in front of the whole world.
SALUTE screens tomorrow at @HydeParkPH at 4pm
£4 / £3
hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk/f…
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In early 1968 three trawlers, the St Romanus, Kingston Peridot & Ross Cleveland sank in atrocious weather conditions within 3 weeks of each other. 58 men lost their lives & the Hessel Road community was torn apart #Hull #12SilkHandkerchiefs #BigLilBilocca m.soundcloud.com/regmeuross/…
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12 Silk Handkerchiefs, dedicated to all those who still live with painful memories of the Hull triple trawler disaster of '68, & to the ensuing tireless safety campaign by Lillian Bilocca & her ‘Headscarf Revolutionaries’ Feat @SamMartynFolk & Mick McGarry goo.gl/W1iun9
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Sara Gomez snapped by Agnes Varda. Her 'De Cierta Manera' (One Way or Another) as the finale in our #Uprising68 @RadFilmNet celebrations. XTREMLY rare screening on 16mm - the print is ready Thurs 8pm. Cuban film scholar @Dunja_Fehimovic will be intro'ing and conversing after.
