how tf did santiago alvarez make the best music video ever made before music videos were even a thing

Throwing a bomb. Civil rights fight as a dangerous subversive act.

I chose to watch this rather than the Academy Awards tonight. Best decision I've made in a while.

Watched it in this morning’s seminar, so I may as well record it on here. I’ve got nothing better to do.

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watched in class
cool, effective cold war era propaganda film
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Watched in my Film History Class @ CalArts

Clever editing makes for an extremely powerful and provocative short.

It could have been didactic or otherwise professorial, and left us feeling lectured at or condescended to, but you come away from this pointed, political expression of Pop Art properly riled and worked up, ready to hit the streets, fight back, resist. Now!

Watched it in this morning’s seminar, so I may as well record it on here. I’ve got nothing better to do.

Lena Horne singing a protest song over the Hava Nagila melody cut to images of protest – I Am Roused! Now! Now! Now!

Exemplary protest music is uncannily direct; Alvarez returns the origin of the protest, the violence and its wounds, to the surface in an act of radical obviousness.

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A documentary about the American judicial system, directed by a Cuban filmmaker with music from an MGM writer. This happened?

Fascinating