After the initial live event, the program will be available for on-demand viewing until 12am midnight EDT on 3/31
These recent documentary, experimental, narrative, and personal films include light-cavalry armor borrowed from a paramedic, the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre, a memory that perhaps never existed, a portrait of Barbara Hammer, and an intensely regarded object.
Sponsor: NETSCOUT
People Meeting in a Room reflects on collective filmmaking and workers’ activism in the UK, connecting the histories of activists and filmmakers associated with the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre in the 1980s with a group of contemporary collaborators. The contributors interpret archival films and collective actions through animation, performance, and conversation.
- Year2019
- Runtime18 minutes
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- PremiereNorth American Premiere
- NoteGlasgow, Scotland / Birmingham, England
- FilmmakerAdam Lewis Jacob
After the initial live event, the program will be available for on-demand viewing until 12am midnight EDT on 3/31
These recent documentary, experimental, narrative, and personal films include light-cavalry armor borrowed from a paramedic, the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre, a memory that perhaps never existed, a portrait of Barbara Hammer, and an intensely regarded object.
Sponsor: NETSCOUT
People Meeting in a Room reflects on collective filmmaking and workers’ activism in the UK, connecting the histories of activists and filmmakers associated with the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre in the 1980s with a group of contemporary collaborators. The contributors interpret archival films and collective actions through animation, performance, and conversation.
- Year2019
- Runtime18 minutes
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- PremiereNorth American Premiere
- NoteGlasgow, Scotland / Birmingham, England
- FilmmakerAdam Lewis Jacob