Resistance of Vision Film Festival

When:
Saturday, May 03, 2025 3:00p -
5:30p

Where:
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$15

Hosted by:
resistanceofvision Anna Feder

Categories:
LGBTQ+, Movies, Rainy Day Ideas, Social Good

Event website:
https://brattlefilm.org/special_events/resistance-of-vision-festival/

Special Event! Premiere Screenings with Discussion!

Founded by former Bright Lights programmer Anna Feder and SF IndieFest director Jeff Ross, RESISTANCE OF VISION is a touring festival of social justice themed short films debuting this May in Boston, San Francisco, Wichita and Birmingham.

A select program of 8 shorts will screen at The Brattle on Saturday, May 3:

WHEN WE ARRIVE AS FLOWERS

Susan O’Brien, 5 min, USA (OUR BODIES, OUR CHOICE)

When We Arrive as Flowers, follows Diovanna, a New York-based trans Afro-Latinx dancer as she realizes her transfemme identity through a choreographic journey of self-discovery, celebration, and the poetic metaphor of a flower coming into bloom.

 

NOMADS IN THE CITY

Moliana Alpha Muller Mundy, 14 min, Spain (WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?)

Nomads in the City is a short documentary film that gives insight into the Squatter community of modern London. From the perspective of females and queers, we explore how routine movement and evictions affect their day-to-day life, navigating the growing housing crisis and exploring alternative forms of living. Watch the Trailer

 

ANCESTRAL CALL

Sonia Kennebeck, Tetiana Anderson, 16 min, USA

(FIGHT THE POWER)

Danielle Scott, a legally blind Black, Polish-Jewish, and Asian mixed-media artist at the cusp of international fame, risks her own well-being by exposing herself to the intergenerational trauma of the Atlantic Slave Trade. She traces her ancestors’ lives for a greater purpose: creating art that reveals the wretched pain and intense beauty of the era while guiding her audience through an experiential journey toward healing and hope. Watch the Trailer

 

ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW

Lipa Hussain, 10 min, UK (FIGHT THE POWER)

Filmmaker Lipa Hussain interrogates a neurological condition she has experienced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religious and racial struggles. Alice In Wonderland syndrome causes the sensation of shrinking and losing bodily control. The film explores the idea of utilizing AIW to confront an enemy from Lipa’s past. Watch the Trailer

 

BLACK TIDE

Kim Yip Tong, 13 min France (THIS IS AN EMERGENCY)

On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on the reef on the east coast of Mauritius. Twelve days later, oil began to spill, causing the worst ecological disaster ever to occur in the region. Watch the Trailer

 

FEELING THE APOCALYPSE

Chen Sing Yap, 7 min, USA (THIS IS AN EMERGENCY)

A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world. Watch the Trailer

 

LOCAL ONE

Stephen Maing, Brett Story, 10 min, USA (WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?)

The Amazon Labor Union made history in 2022 by becoming the first group to successfully unionize an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Two and a half years later, the company has refused to recognize the union and bargain a contract. To pressure the company to start negotiating, the Amazon Labor Union, now affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, launches a nationwide strike during peak holiday shopping season. From the filmmakers of the Award-winning film Union, Local One takes us into the first days of the strike at two Amazon warehouses in New York City, this time in solidarity with hundreds more workers across the country. Watch the Trailer

 

RESIST: THE RESISTANCE REVIVAL CHROUS

Susan O’Brien, 19 min, USA

In the midst of a country divided, a diverse group of women and non-binary individuals unite through the historic power of music to create a movement ignited by song.

 

Total running time is 95 minutes. Tickets are $15 general admission; $13 all discounts; no passes.

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