From Executive Producer Rosario Dawson:
THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them together, despite the spectre of their friend’s suicide and the ever-crystalizing fact that healing from war is sometimes an impossible mission.
This hybrid narrative film features a supporting cast of Iraq and Vietnam veterans, as well as their original artwork, poetry, and music - and was produced over three years as an ongoing collaboration with a thriving community of veteran artists and papermakers. (111 min, 2021, Director: Talia Lugacy) + Director Q&A
http://www.acousticpictures.org/
Short to precede:
ART IN RESISTANCE ('Dissidents' Chapter Four) - Different expressions, various techniques, and thousands of formats are born and mask the streets of Santiago. Art is reborn in the streets as a political-corporal necessity for resistance, transforming public spaces and bodies into spaces of struggle. (6 min, Chile, 2020, Produced by Milla Films & VlopCinema Collective)
Dissidents is a web series made up of four 5 minute chapters that immerse you in the first-person lived experiences of the Social Revolts in Chile that began on October 18, 2019. Our short films open a space to learn from participants in diverse processes of resistance. You can feel for our struggles, from the heroism and organization of the frontline combatants and the feminist movements that emerged with greater force through performances of “Las Tesis,” through understanding the atrocities of the police branch of the military, to how art is the great tool of resistance in our society.