Brff: A Time Comes: The Story Of The Kingsnorth & Paths Through Utopias
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Fri 2 March 2012 // 19:30
(Fri 2nd March / doors 7.30pm for 8pm start / £4/3)
A Time Comes: The Story of the Kingsnorth
(Nick Broomfield / 2009 / UK / 20 minutes)
Paths Through Utopias
(John Jordan & Isabelle Freemeaux / 2011 / UK and France / 109 minutes)
To launch the festival we open with a short film from one of Britain’s most well-respected documentary filmmakers, Nick Broomfield. Six environmental activists made history in 2008 by shutting down the coal-fired power station in Kent, an act which the jury subsequently agreed was justified in the interests of protecting the environment from the effects of climate change. Broomfield abandons his usual style of enquiring objectivity to bring us this celebration of the spirit of direct-action.
Continuing with more climate activism, Paths Through Utopias sees activists and academics John Jordan & Isa Freemeaux set off from the Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow in 2008 and journey across Europe in search of attempts to imagine alternatives to capitalism in action. Far from the drudgery and exploitation of wage labour that characterises most of the world today, they found ways of living that encourage diversity, creativity and kindness, from squatted villages and anarchist collectives in France and Spain, to occupied factories under self-management in Serbia.
A Time Comes: The Story of the Kingsnorth
(Nick Broomfield / 2009 / UK / 20 minutes)
Paths Through Utopias
(John Jordan & Isabelle Freemeaux / 2011 / UK and France / 109 minutes)
To launch the festival we open with a short film from one of Britain’s most well-respected documentary filmmakers, Nick Broomfield. Six environmental activists made history in 2008 by shutting down the coal-fired power station in Kent, an act which the jury subsequently agreed was justified in the interests of protecting the environment from the effects of climate change. Broomfield abandons his usual style of enquiring objectivity to bring us this celebration of the spirit of direct-action.
Continuing with more climate activism, Paths Through Utopias sees activists and academics John Jordan & Isa Freemeaux set off from the Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow in 2008 and journey across Europe in search of attempts to imagine alternatives to capitalism in action. Far from the drudgery and exploitation of wage labour that characterises most of the world today, they found ways of living that encourage diversity, creativity and kindness, from squatted villages and anarchist collectives in France and Spain, to occupied factories under self-management in Serbia.