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DESCRIPTION:ANSWER Film Series – in commemoration of International Workers’ 
 Day\n“An Injury to One”\n\nAward-winning filmmaker Travis Wilkerson 
 will lead discussion and present the documentary “An Injury to One” 
 Travis Wilkerson’s work has screened at scores of festivals worldwide, 
 including Sundance, He is a co-founder of extremelowfrequency, a digitally 
 based micro-distributor of radical cinema and culture.\n\n“An Injury to 
 One” provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a 
 particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history: 
 the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the 
 mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, a story whose grisly 
 details have taken on a legendary status in the state. Much of the extant 
 evidence is inscribed upon the landscape of Butte and its surroundings. 
 Thus, a connection is drawn between the unsolved murder of Little, and the 
 attempted murder of the town itself.\n\nButte's history was entirely shaped 
 by its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of 
 WWI, produced ten percent of the world's copper from the town's depths. War 
 profiteering and the company's extreme indifference to the safety of its 
 employees (mortality rates in the mines were higher than in the trenches of 
 Europe) led to Little's arrival. "The agitator" found in the desperate, 
 agonized miners overwhelming support for his ideas, which included the 
 abolishment of the wage system and the establishment of a socialist 
 commonwealth.\n\nArchival footage mixes with deftly deployed intertitles, 
 while the lyrics to traditional mining songs are accompanied by music from 
 William Oldham, Jim O'Rourke, and the band Low, producing an appropriately 
 moody, effulgent, and strangely out-of-time soundtrack. The result is a 
 unique film/video hybrid that combines painterly images, incisive writing, 
 and a bold graphic sensibility to produce an articulate example of the 
 aesthetic and political possibilities offered by filmmaking in the digital 
 age. 53min. 2003\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/05/18389650.php
SUMMARY:May Day Film: "An Injury to One" and discussion w/ filmmaker
LOCATION:ATA (Artists’ Television Access) 992 Valencia St, at 21st, St., near 24th 
 St. BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/05/18389650.php
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