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LaborFest: Australian Films: Filmwork and The Hungry Miles
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Date:
Friday, July 13, 2007
Time:
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Event Type:
Screening
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Location Details:
Fellowship of Humanity Hall, 370 27th St., Oakland
Australian Films:
Filmwork: Between 1953 and 1958 the Waterside Workers Federation in Australia supported a film unit tha produced ten documentary films for several militant unions. Film-Work, produced in 1981, looks at sequences from four of these films in conversation with the Unit’s members raising issues pertinent to current problems of film and labor history, politics and social change.
The Hungry Miles: This labor film, which premiered to 5,000 wharfies in a Melbourne stadium shows the real lives and struggles of the Australian dockers. The WWF had made it a high priority to break through the anti-worker propaganda by the shipping bosses and this film played a key part in showing the working conditions, hopes and aspirations of dockers. It also challenged the corporate controlled effort to make film simply "entertainment" industry.
Filmwork: Between 1953 and 1958 the Waterside Workers Federation in Australia supported a film unit tha produced ten documentary films for several militant unions. Film-Work, produced in 1981, looks at sequences from four of these films in conversation with the Unit’s members raising issues pertinent to current problems of film and labor history, politics and social change.
The Hungry Miles: This labor film, which premiered to 5,000 wharfies in a Melbourne stadium shows the real lives and struggles of the Australian dockers. The WWF had made it a high priority to break through the anti-worker propaganda by the shipping bosses and this film played a key part in showing the working conditions, hopes and aspirations of dockers. It also challenged the corporate controlled effort to make film simply "entertainment" industry.
For more information:
http://laborfest.net/2007schedule.htm#31
Added to the calendar on Sun, Jun 17, 2007 10:27PM
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