VFTTD Episode 2 is up

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VIDEOS FROM THE TRASH DIMENSION Episode 2 is up

A video adaptation of the zine “Defending Our Hoods And Each Other”, an autozone commercial, and a 55 minute video that feels interesting for this series mostly because of the use of video game footage to do narrative with. A weird example of diy video strategy that opens a lot of narrative doors without having to pay for equipment.

Make no-budget/ anarchist video and send them to us. Film a zine you like, rip pre-existing footage and make a video essay, do a cellphone video, we literally do not care and will probably screen at least some of it.

This series is intended to be screened in rooms for groups of people and you don't need permission to put on a screening.

https://anarchy.tube/w/rjohd8zj6Bps9WuRKPL4st

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I totally dig these productions. This is all what Submedia has ever failed to be, but more! I don't care about a buncha *campesinos* doing big populist marches between riding their noisy smelly motor vehicles to the taquerias, or White activists fronting for struggles that barely even exist. I just want my anticiv anarchy served fresh and tasty.

only the intro is reminiscent of some stimulator era riot porn video collage, but resembles more the animated gif version of that share in tumblr of that era, the long segments resemble more something out of the cinema committee

So, calling anything anarchist____ especially video usually feels weird to me, but I understand that the idea is that there are anarchist methods being used. I'm curious to find out if there are more anarchist specific stories that aren't documentaries aside from the example in episode 1 (which I liked a lot) and both zine to video adaptations. Not to say that this episode isn't also very good, it is.

So yeah, while the other episode(s) were definitely relevant, I too agree that there ain't much anarchist content in there. The adage of "finding each other" here seems to only end up being about getting even, literally. So it's still a worthy tale about some youngsters suffering from the isolated we all know, and how online games coulda just been replaced with, like, Tinder for getting together? I also didn't see whatever happened with their rezoning eviction or how they answered to it...

So it's really well⁻made as an artsy short film that aptly depicts social isolation and tech alienation in the real world of today, and just like the last one our disconnection from nature. While this could be shown in anarchist circles it's also something I'd see being shown in art events or at film schools. Good or bad? I won't say....

it's intentionally open to a broader base of people other than just anarchists, anyone who would send a video or would want to screen it, so long as they vibe with it. here they place "anarchist film" in scare quotes, so they have plausible deniability and poetic license to do what they want with it and there's no contradiction https://a.nti.social/users/ABhqxe1MQdtERdNcCe

why scare quotes are a sign of sloppy writing/deniability/half-assedness.

not saying that this project has to claim itself as anarchist, just that if it's trying to back out of the words even as it's saying them... why use the words at all?

Scare quotes are based and good. Only “fascists” oppose scare quotes.

"lol"

Something I appreciate about these that I only see sometimes in diy environments (and never in film) is relative anonymity. Last episode was fully anonymous while this one was mostly anonymous aside from mention of performers. Nice to see in something that isn't a clear documentation of reality, an essay, or a communique or something. I don't know that I'm as concerned with something explaining to me when and why it is capitol A Anarchist as I am concerned with what I see as more anarchist approaches to all things, including film.

I actually think using the word “anarchist” outside of scare quotes is nerd shit.

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