La Commune (Paris 1871) Free film screening event / discussion with food Aceartinc. 290 McDermot Avenue Sunday 18th July 2010 1pm In the week that marks Bastille Day, join us on Sunday 18th July for one day of food and discussion based around a screening of the 2000 Peter Watkins film, La Commune (Paris 1871). Beginning at 1pm, La Commune will be screened in two parts with a break around 4pm to eat food together, share reflections and ideas. How can we move forward together? La Commune is a meticulously researched opening up of the events surrounding the Paris uprising of 1871 - when the people of Paris took power and instigated their own radical government. With a cast of non-professional actors presenting themselves to us in and out of character, and using the device of a television news crew to guide us through the unfolding narrative, La Commune is a meditation on the presentation and reproduction of histories, of 'events'. At once arresting for its engagement of audience and actors, for its interrogation of process and mediation, La Commune is radical social cinema. Watkins cinema provokes a serious questioning of society, be it the breakdown of humanity in The War Game (1965), its pop lunacy in Privelage (1966), its clinging to democratic legalities in Punishment Park (1970), or its overturning in La Commune (2000). A pioneer of docudrama, Watkins continually explores the terrain of method, media, and audience expectation. Bring food to share with a mind open to present day sites of insurrection and to the issues the film raises. Read MORE La Commune (Paris 1871) Peter Watkins. 2000. France. 345 mins. Thanks to Rebond pour la Commune and Aceartinc

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