Rough Blazing Star

A new experimental documentary film project from artist/filmmaker Christopher Wiersema examines anarchism, local history and memory, Emma Goldman’s writing, and a shared love of flowers. Told through a poetic inquiry and response to the text and research – beginning with a visit to the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont – the social center of the Italian anarchist and socialist community in the early 1900’s.

Film Maker
Wiersema, Christopher
Year
2024
Country
U.S.A.
Length
29
Language
English, Italian (with English subtitles)
Category
Abstraction, Activism + Protest, America, Anthropology, art & artists, Capitalism + Economics, Class-struggle, Community, Culture, Essay, found footage, history, Immigration, Labour, Memory, Photography, Poetry, Politics + Policy, Poverty, Resistance
Genre
documentary, experimental

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