Sunday, Jan 19th, 6:30pm – 8:00pm ET
"Fell in Love with Fire" Film Screening
On the eve of Trump's second inauguration, join friends and neighbors for a community screening of Fell in Love with Fire, a feature-length documentary about the popular uprising that swept Chile in 2019.
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
This is an inspiring portrayal of the tactics that gave demonstrators control of the streets, the organizing strategies that enabled the movement to act effectively while remaining leaderless, and the importance of time and space in revolt. It is also a cautionary tale about how the government used the promise of a new constitutional process to recover enough legitimacy to regain control. It chronicles a high point of action in a struggle that continues today.
From the director: "I’ve presented the live version of Fell In Love With Fire within autonomous territory held in defiance of state power—in Weelaunee Forest, at a Los Panchos community in Mexico City, in People’s Park, where the audience sat on a trashed excavator left from the last riots to retake the park in 2022. It is my hope that this videozine, this documentalgo, can serve as tool to bring those kinds of spaces onto the map of other projects of rebellious self-determination across the globe and across time."
Watch the trailer at https://kolektiva.media/w/3chRBy46GNSg8CVeYuPrz8.