Social Documentaries gallery
Art Resistance produces social documentaries that highlight injustice and the need for grassroots change.
For other videos, please see the general, trade union, events, music and announcements or packages gallery pages.
For other videos, please see the general, trade union, events, music and announcements or packages gallery pages.
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Art Resistance was heavily involved in the production of the 2014 feature film, Radical Wollongong, which was voted 'Best in Festival' at the 2014 Canadian Labour International Film Festival. It also took out the 'Miguel Cifuentes Radical Change Award' at the same festival. The film premiered to 250 people in the Illawarra. The film is an action-packed account of the political history of the city - from miners to the Pig Iron Bob dispute to draft resistance to women fighting for jobs at BHP, and much more. Watch the trailer here, and find out more at the Radical Wollongong website.
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The Alyawarr Walk Off Protest vs the Northern Territory Intervention documents the work of unionists and Aboriginal rights activists who respond to a NT Aboriginal community's calls for support. The remote community were protesting against the NT Intervention, which had seen the army and bureaucrats arrive at the cost of millions, yet not one house had been built for the local community. The unionists and activists arrived to do what the government was determined not to - help the community to build housing, and in the process promote justice, not dis-empowerment.
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S11: This is what democracy looks like was created during three days of protest in Melbourne outside a meeting of the world's richest countries at the World Economic Forum. The protests, involving unionists, environmentalists and a range of anti corporate globalisation activists, attempted to blockade and shut down the meeting of those they said were intent on harming workers and the planet in the pursuit of profit. |
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Supersize My Pay was filmed in New Zealand and covers the battle of fast food workers and their union, Unite, to win decent pay and conditions, including a decent minimum wage for workers at places like McDonalds and KFC. |
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Indonesia in Revolt is a historic 1998 film on the Indonesian people's democracy movement and the struggle to bring down the dictator Suharto. Filmmakers from Art Resistance spent two months in Indonesia gathering a wide range of interviews, and footage of events as they took place, as students and activists put their lives in danger in the struggle for change. 13 people who disappeared have never been found. Made by Art Resistance's Jill Hickson and John Reynolds. |
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Palestine under Occupation was produced in 2001, when Art Resistance's John Reynolds visited the West Bank. Despite being filmed 13 years ago, the issues of Israel's colonisation and brutal occupation of Palestine through settlement development remains today. Art Resistance interviewed Palestinians in the streets of Ramallah, visited their homes, a primary school in Hebron, a refugee camp in Bethlehem as well as participating in the 2001 Al Nakba anniversary. |
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