Doors. 18.30. Screenings 19.00
No Japs at My Funeral. 1980. Directed by James Nares. 60 mins.
Named after a provision in Lord Louis Mountbatten’s will made public after his assassination by the IRA in 1979, this video work is a portrait of the North of Ireland’s liberation struggle through the stories of one IRA operative. Close-up shots of the man are intercut with British television reports on the Troubles, recasting the conflict as one over control of information. As described by Gary Indiana in a 1980 East Village Eye interview, No Japs is “a deconstructive propaganda piece that demolishes the British version of events”
Very Gentle Work. 2024. Directed by Nate Lavey. 24 mins.
Through a fictional protagonist’s psychogeographic research into militant revenge and Jewish tradition, Very Gentle Work connects Sholem Schwarzbard, the Black Liberation Army, FALN and Weather Underground to the ongoing struggle against a proposed police training center near Atlanta, Georgia.
