Dissident Cinema_Memoirs of René Vautier
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La Cinètika is a squatted, anti-capitalist, autonomous and feminist cinema located at 28 Rambla de Fabra i Puig, with an entrance on Carrer de les Monges, in the Sant Andreu de Palomar neighbourhood of Barcelona.
The occupation took place in 2016. Since then, we have worked to bring life back to a space that had been abandoned and where dozens of weekly activities now take place. In addition, alternatives to consumerist leisure are created through collectively made decisions in horizontal assemblies. We aim to remain autonomous, broaden both participation and involvement, and deepen our self-management practices.
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"In cinema, as in any other craft, there are those who swallow and those who spit, those who climb and those who stand their ground. Usually, the former win—and are also the first to be defeated in that peculiar thing called dignity. A corrupt system only benefits the corrupt. It’s elementary logic".
René Vautier entered cinema with a verse by Paul Éluard in mind («I say what I see, what I know, what is true»). He devoted his professional life to fighting censorship—not because he sought to specialize in it, but because what we call censorship is nothing other than a dense web of traps, laws, ambushes, silences, amputations, distortions, blackmail, betrayals, and changes of side that every filmmaker must face when attempting something as simple as telling what they see. The bitter, comic, devastating, hilarious, brutal, and delicate account of that struggle—which led him to devise a thousand and one ways to outwit the iron hand of power—makes for a brilliant and necessary bookA book that every documentary student should keep on their bedside table.