West Indies
Med Hondo
1979
History is not past but staged repetition—where oppression persists because its script is endlessly performed.
Trailer: https://t.co/zxXnkAWhwp
‘The Alabama Solution’ is a stark and harrowing look inside the conditions of one of Alabama’s most notorious prisons and highlights why journalists are needed on the inside. https://t.co/u59b4tlsgf
This week: THE GREEN VINYL a film by KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO. 2004. 17 min.
Inspired by Chris Marker, the Brazilian director behind the Oscar-nominated THE SECRET AGENT adapts a Russian folktale into an eerie and inventive short.
For one week on https://t.co/ze1aiGlY0x.
my video countdown of the 25 best films of 2025 will be up on tuesday 1/20.
this year's fundraiser is for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, which provides medical & humanitarian care to kids in Gaza and beyond. please consider donating if you can!
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This week: PETIT À PETIT a film by JEAN ROUCH. 1970. 96 min.
Two Nigerien businessmen navigate the strange customs of Paris in this reverse ethnography from the French master.
For two weeks on https://t.co/ze1aiGmvQ5.
this is not a drill:
for the next two days you can watch the recent re-staging of Pina Bausch’s “The Rite of Spring” with an all African cast.
it’s spellbinding and resolutely rapturous https://t.co/XZ2Vvwz4Yg
Scalawag has received a $20k gift from a generous funder and we are on a mission to match it. We believe a more just South is possible—and it starts with shifting the stories we tell. Donate to support non-profit media that does things differently. https://t.co/cogqY7SyyU
Evening viewing recommendation? On @criterionchannl, celebrate the work of Charles Burnett — a true trailblazer of independent cinema who has brought images of Black American life to the screen with authenticity, empathy, and stirring poetry. This career-spanning collection shows the versatility and singular lyrical sensibility of this essential artist. https://t.co/vW0Z53ajnD
Scalawag’s $20 for 20K fall fundraising campaign is officially live ya’ll! A generous funder has provided Scalawag with 20K in funds and we’re asking for donations of $20 (or more) to help us raise an additional 20K to match it. 🧵