Resources for October 19, 2015

Archive in Focus: Syd Shelton, Rock against Racism from Autograph ABP on Vimeo.

Michael Benton: "Incredible series of powerful photos documenting the Rock Against Racism movement - this was a huge influence on my developing teenage (12-17 yrs) political perspective and I think it is time that RAR is revived/re-established."

Shelton, Syd. Rock Against Racism Photographs (Facebook: Posted on October 15, 2015)

Goldberg, Max. "Hou’s Killer Instincts with THE ASSASSIN." Keyframe (October 15, 2015)

Currier, Cora, Ryan Deveraux, and Jeremy Scahill. "The Longest U.S. War, Prolonged: After Vowing Afghan Pullout, Obama Extends Occupation Indefinitely." Democracy Now (October 16, 2015) ["President Obama has reversed plans to withdraw most U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the time he leaves office. On Thursday, Obama said a deteriorating security situation will force him to maintain the current deployment of 9,800 soldiers through 2016. When Obama’s term ends in 2017, the U.S. will keep at least 5,500 troops at four bases across Afghanistan. After 14 years of war, the Taliban now holds more of Afghanistan than at any point since the 2001 U.S. invasion, and some estimates put them in control of half the country. President Obama’s announcement comes nearly a year after he declared an official end to the U.S. combat mission, though U.S. military operations have continued. The move assures that despite previous pledges, the war will continue under his successor. We are joined by Intercept reporters Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Devereaux and Cora Currier, whose new series "The Drone Papers" includes a detailed look at the drone war in Afghanistan based on government leaks."]

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (USA: Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014: 99 mins) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Kutner, Jenny. "#CocksNotGlocks Comes From a Long History of Using Sex Toys as Protest Tools." Mic (October 14, 2015)

"Charles Burnett, Pt. 1." Moving Image Source (January 7, 1995) ["The pioneering African-American director Charles Burnett was a film student at UCLA when he made Killer of Sheep (1977), a powerful independent film that combines blues-inspired lyricism and neo-realism in its drama of an inner-city slaughterhouse worker and his family. Killer of Sheep, now regarded as a landmark in American independent cinema, was part of a small group of films that became known as "The L.A. Rebellion." During a retrospective of his films at the Museum of the Moving Image, he introduced a screening of Killer of Sheep and then participated in a wide-ranging discussion moderated by culture critic Greg Tate."]

Grady, Pam. "Regarding Milgram: Michael Almereyda on EXPERIMENTER." Keyframe (October 13, 2015)

"Charles Burnett, Pt. 2." Moving Image Source (January 8, 1995) ["The pioneering African-American director Charles Burnett was a film student at UCLA when he made Killer of Sheep (1977), a powerful independent film that combines blues-inspired lyricism and neo-realism in its drama of an inner-city slaughterhouse worker and his family. Killer of Sheep, now regarded as one of the best films of its era, was part of a small group of films that became known as "The L.A. Rebellion." During a retrospective of his films at the Museum of the Moving Image, he answered questions from the audience about To Sleep with Anger, his drama starring Danny Glover as a mysterious visitor from the South who stirs up a Los Angeles family."]

Hudson, David. "Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak: “Wears its heart on its sleeve, along with its soul and most of its intestines.”." Keyframe (October 14, 2015)

Ackerman, Spencer. "Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people." The Guardian (October 19, 2015) ["Guardian lawsuit exposes fullest scale yet of detentions at off-the-books interrogation warehouse, while attorneys describe find-your-client chase across Chicago as ‘something from a Bond movie’"]

Longo, Stefano B. "Commodifying the Oceans." Against the Grain (October 19, 2015) ['The oceans are in turmoil, but unfortunately most of it is out of sight and therefore out of mind. Environmental sociologist Stefano Longo explores the multiple threats to the oceans, from overfishing to coral reef collapse to ocean acidification. He weighs in on whether the notion of the “tragedy of the commons” is sufficient to explain the roots of the crisis."]