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Directed by Samuel Russak | 84 minutes | All Ages | 100th Anniversary |
11:00am Saturday, 16 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 1 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Pat Frances live-scores this righteous call to arms, a docufiction spectacle created to raise funds for its onscreen strikers!
In October 1925, due to a depression in the textile industry, a 10 percent wage cut was imposed by mill owners. The strike that followed went for thirteen months and was vigorously and violently opposed by mill owners and police authorities. A hybrid of fictional melodrama and on-the-ground documentary footage, The Passaic Textile Strike was made by the strikers' Relief Committee to not only show what was happening on the picket lines but also to provide much needed funds for the relief of strikers and their families.
BUFF presents this semi-restored, still-urgent activist cinema with a live score by Melbourne troubadour par excellence Patrick Frances.
SIMILAR: Strike! (1925), Mother (1926), Harlan County USA, Salt of the Earth, Steinbeck novels
“It is spectacular seeing thousands of striking workers in the streets. Always madness-inducing to see a hundred-year-old movie that depicts basically the same evils of today.” - Kai Perrignon, BUFF Head Programmer
“What’s most impressive is that this little thing also manages to squeeze in a message about the effectiveness of working class solidarity beyond gender and color lines.” - Gregory Nussen, Letterboxd
CONTENT WARNING: Implied sexual violence
Country: United States
Year: 1926
Language: English