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DIRECT ACTION, dir. Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell, Germany-France 2024, French, Arabic, English with English subtitles, 212 min.
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Filmed between 2022 and 2023, and composed of forty-one static takes, Direct Action creates a measured but tender portrait of France’s ZAD movement. While engaging with the question ‘how to see the community beyond their ideologies and militant strategies’, Cailleau and Russell have found a quietly immersive form to mirror ZAD’s revolutionary vision. Avoiding reportage, the film locates the sublime found in apparently mundane scenes of farming, cooking and cleaning.
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04:45 pm
Sat, 19 Oct 2024
Cinema 1
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