DIM Cinema: Troublemakers
Regarded in its time as one of the best documentaries of the New Left, Troublemakers, subtitled “a film about organizing people for change,” follows the frustrated efforts of community activists to put theory into practice in an African-American community in Newark, New Jersey, two years prior to the July 1967 uprising there. Troublemakers sets the stage for a pair of shorts programmed to mark this month’s 50th anniversary of the May 1968 revolution in France: Cinetracts, a series of short agit-prop films made anonymously by Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, and others, using still photography; and the recently-unearthed Actua 1, which catches the spirit of ’68 through footage shot by Philippe Garrel and other young protesters on the barricades. American artist Bruce Baillie, in “one of the most beautiful films ever made” (Chuck Stephens, Cinema Scope), sings us out with an old song about a revolutionary hero.
Troublemakers | Norman Fruchter, Robert Machover/USA 1966. 54 min. 16mmActua 1 | Philippe Garrel/France 1968. 6 min. DCP Cinetracts | France 1968. 20 min. DCP Valentin de las Sierras | Bruce Baillie/USA 1968. 10 min. 16mm
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An ongoing series curated by Michèle Smith, DIM Cinema [5]presents Canadian and international moving images in dialogue with the cinema. Screenings are held monthly at The Cinematheque [6] on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.The name of the series is inspired by the diffused Vancouver sky, the darkness of the cinema, and a quote from James Broughton's Making Light of It (1992): “Movie images are dim reflections of the beauty and ferocity in mankind.”