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Video of the 1967 meeting in London of the “Symposium on the Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence”, organized by R.D.Laing, with Allen Ginsberg, Paul Sweezey, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, etc. An important record of the spectrum of leftwing politics and personalities during the turbulent Sixties.
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Llengua: Inglés. Països: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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2009: Rizomas - Archivo rizomas
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rosa Anatomy of Violence, produced by Peter Davis in 1967. - ‘It was a two week congress of intellectuals in London. Black power people headed by Stokely Carmichael, the flower people represented by Allen Ginsberg, political scientists and an host of sociologists and social psychologists from the US and Britain. The common theme of the meeting was violence and revolution.’ You dig? Davis’ documentary was commissioned by New York’s Channel 13. Genuinely essential viewing. Ah! Sunflower, directed by Robert Klinkert and Iain Sinclair in 1967. - Arguably an exercise in how not to make a documentary. But, in spite of that, compelling. Ginsberg in and out of the congress: the trauma with Orlovsky, his interest in the opposite sex, his slightly slavish devotion to McLuhanism. The release on DVD includes inter alia interviews with Sinclair himself and Laing associate, Chris Oakley.
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Proyecciones: 1 (2009) — Rizomas
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Peter Davis is a producer and director of about 70 documentaries, ranging in subject from Cuba to the Middle East, USA to Europe to Africa. Much of his work is a contribution to the anti-apartheid movement. He has also written a book on cinema and apartheid, In Darkest Hollywood, and edited Lionel Rogosin’s, Come Back Africa: Lionel Rogosin – A Man Possessed. He regularly contributes to film festivals and lectures on a number of subjects. He distributes several hundred video titles, and curates some collections of photographs. For more information, contact at www.villonfilms.com