WTO/99 in APRIL. This one is going up a little late after being distracted by the build up to and execution of the wildly successful Minneapolis benefit screenings presented by @smittenkittenmn and @nhn_tc . But look at all those exciting new cities! Oooooo. Ahhhhh. Tell your friends to buy the tickets & take the ride.
Building from a thousand-hour archive, @wto99doc is an immersive visual artifact of a week that brought people together to warn of environmental collapse, the vanishing middle class, and what the full inclusion of China in the World Trade Organization would mean for our collective future. Our theatrical run opens this Fri Dec 5. #DCTVFirehouse
Upcoming events with XFR Collective:
🍄 5/16 1-4pm - @wavefield.nyc field trip to XFR at @the_p.i.t._
👸 5/23 12-5pm - community archiving day at @queensmuseum
🏴 5/28 6-10pm - @wto99doc screening with @prophetkotto at @the_p.i.t._
📼 5/30 1-4pm - volunteer orientation/video preservation workshop at @the_p.i.t._
🫂 6/6 2:30-4pm XFR community meeting at @the_p.i.t._
If you like what we do, consider supporting us by signing up to volunteer and/or making a donation! (details in our bio)
#nycevents #analog #archive #vhs
WTO/99 is coming to the @mayslesdocumentarycenter on May 21! What an honor to screen at the theater founded by the legendary Albert Maysles who once had the rare pleasure of filming Mick Jagger looking sad. I'll be there for Q&A. Come to Harlem!
In May WTO/99 returns to Seattle, heads overseas to Warsaw and Amsterdam, wears a big inflatable frog costume to Portland, and continues to screen all over the country. Keep bugging your local theaters to screen WTO/99, it's still working in month 6(!!) of theatrical release.
Thanks for WTO/99 (@wto99doc ) Editor & Producer Alex Megaro (@prophetkotto ) for joining us a screening and wonderful conversation with our audience, many of whom attended the protest the film so skillfully captures.
TOMORROW NIGHT!
WTO/99 (@wto99doc )
THURSDAY, April 23th @ 7pm — at @amherstcinema !
Editor & Producer ALEX MEGARO (@prophetkotto ) joins us for a post-film discussion
Tickets & Info: /films-and-events/wto99
About the film:
WTO/99 is immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.
WTO/99 finally comes to Toronto on May 1 at 7PM at @eyesore_cinema ! Celebrate International Workers Day by watching this fully archival documentary showing workers fighting back against both unfair labor practices and a freshly militarized police force on the streets of Seattle in 1999.
I will beam in for a Q&A moderated by the legend himself @jessehawken host of Junk Filter Podcast.
Tickets $10 at the door.
"WTO/99 brilliantly makes the case for the Seattle WTO protests as a watershed moment in modern history—one with urgent significance in understanding issues we face today. The militarization of the police, the proliferation of right-wing media and fake news, the collapse of our democracy into fascism, and the ever-growing power of multinational corporations all seem to be taking hold before our eyes in this film. WTO/99 accomplishes this convincingly and artfully, seamlessly weaving together primary sources in a bravura manner" - Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatchtaketwo )
WTO/99 (@wto99doc )
THURSDAY, April 23th @ 7pm — at @amherstcinema !
Editor & Producer ALEX MEGARO (@prophetkotto ) joins us for a post-film discussion
Tickets & Info: /films-and-events/wto99
About the film:
WTO/99 is immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.
🎞️ Un documentar imersiv compus din materiale de arhivă, care surprinde cele patru zile de confruntări dintre Organizația Mondială a Comerțului (OMC) și cei peste 40.000 de oameni care au protestat pe străzile din Seattle în 1999 împotriva Conferinței OMC, semnalând impactul organizației asupra drepturilor omului și muncii, și posibilele efecte ale globalizării continue.
🌿 Documentarul „WTO/99” (r. Ian Bell), prezentat anul trecut în cadrul IDFA și a Festivalului de Film din Vancouver, va fi proiectat în cadrul secțiunii Trecut Continuu de la OWR19!
📅 Sâmbătă, 25 aprilie, la 20:30
📍 Cinema Elvire Popesco
📅 Miercuri, 29 aprilie, la 18:00
📍 Cinemateca Eforie
🎟️ Bilete și abonamente disponibile pe Eventbook! Link în bio!
We are over here doin the MOST. As always. ANYWAY, it’s gross outside and the perfect day to come see a rage inducing documentary to propel us forward 🔥🔥🔥🔥
TICKET LINK IS IN OUR LINKTREE AND ITS CHEAP AF. Let’s show up for our neighbors!
VISUAL DESCRIPTION: Anne dressed in all black ranting in front of the store
