Essentials: Protest

Essentials: Protest - another in the series of national touring programmes presenting iconic and influential films by artists. The six themed programmes include newly restored classics and influential gems that have blazed a trail through the visual arts, fashion, music and design influencing countless artists and films throughout the 20th Century.

Essentials: Protest presents iconic cine-pamphlets, cine-manifestos and film-essays that mobilised the social energies of discontent, crisis and struggle that convulsed the 20th century. Drawing upon aesthetic traditions of negation, critique and provocation, these artists use the political forms of montage, collage and appropriation to produce radical interventions.

Includes films by Henri Storks, Jean Vigo, Santiago Alvarez, Harun Farocki, Jean Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet.

Further reading: Ico Essential Protest