Made in Bangladesh is a drama about a woman’s struggle to set up a union in a garment factory. It begins with a co-worker perishing in a workplace fire, obviously taking from real events like the 2012 factory fire disaster in Dhaka. Shimu and her friends feel distraught but helpless. When Shimu is contacted by…
To Be A Woman is a short film from the 1950s. It open with that plummy voice, “What of the woman of today? What does she want in the 1950s?” The Pathe News male voice puts forth these questions against an RP female voice setting forth the arguments for equal pay. You’d think this would…
Getting Away With Murder(s) asks the question why were the people who carried out the holocaust not brought to justice? Less than 1% of the people who participated in this mass murder were ever brought to trial. Of those, fewer were convicted, and even fewer adequately sentenced. It takes thousands of people to commit a…
I never saw Belle when it first came out coz I thought it looked gash. But since seeing it analysed in The Psychosis of Whiteness, I’ve been a little interested in what the complete piece looked like. And tonight it was being shown as part of Black History Month with a panel from CRER to…
The Deer King is one of those movies whose message becomes eerily prescient by the time it’s released. First written in 2014 and adapted in 2017, no one could have known that a story about a plague becoming a focal point for political unrest and ethnic tension would become so unfortunately relevant upon its release…
The Chambermaid is a film about Eve, an indigenous worker in a luxury hotel in Mexico. The film is shot from entirely within the hotel. It is as though the director wants to see if you can tell the story of someone’s full humanity through the keyhole of their work. Because work is where you…
Fannie’s Film is a documentary short focusing on Fannie, an elderly African-American woman who works as a cleaner in a gym in the 1980s. She talks about her life and her work, as the film shows her picking up towels, wiping down mirrors, and dusting the blinds. The visuals are only of the gym, the…
You remember The Corporation? Documentary movie released back in 2003, it put forward that if corporate personhood was a thing, then the corporation would be diagnosed a psychopath. Big favourite in charity shop DVD sections near universities all throughout the 2000s. It made you start reading and then swiftly abandon the book No Logo, remember?…
On The Line follows 3 deportees from the United States to Mexico. All have spent decades and decades living in the US, and have nothing in Mexico. They live in Tijuana, close enough to the American border to see San Diego on a clear day. The heartbreak of this film is of how near, and…
The Man Who Sold His Skin is based on Delvoye’s Tim, an artist who tattooed his work on a guy’s back, a man who now sits in exhibit halls displaying it. In this film, the canvass is Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee who sells his back to a famous artist to gain safe passage to…