ICE ICE BABY – ‘THE INFILTRATORS’ AND THE SHADOW OF FOR-PROFIT DETAINMENT FACILITIES

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged America, american politics, claudio rojas, detainment, documentary, dreamers, featured, film, Florida, ice, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, incarceration, miami film festival, national film festival, national immigrant youth alliance, NIYA, private prisons, privatisation, ted deutch, the infiltrators, Utah.

By David Breakspear

After its debut screening in February of this year at the National Film Festival in Utah, USA, the main source of information for the documentary The Infiltrators, Claudio Rojas, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials – just days before the documentary was due to be screened at the Miami Film Festival. Friends and colleagues of Rojas claim this act is political persecution.Continue Reading

DISPOSSESION: THE GREAT SOCIAL HOUSING SWINDLE

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Benefits Street, Community, council housing, Dispossession, documentary, film, food banks, Glasgow, homelessness, housing estates, Jan McLachlan, Karen Cully, london, Maxine Peake, Nottingham, Paul Sng, poverty porn, public service cuts, Radical Routes, Samir Jeraj, screening, social housing, social isolation, Su Langdon, The Great Social Housing Swindle, The People's Picnic, The Rent Trap.

by Eli Lambe

Released shortly before the disaster at Grenfell, Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a timely and balanced exploration of the factors that led to the tragedy, and to the wider social cleansing of working class and low income communities throughout the UK. Introducing the film to a packed room in Norwich’s Cinema City, director Paul Sng emphasised the need to counter the “media culture of denigrating people who live in social housing”. The goal of the film, for Sng, was to show that people living in these estates and situations are valuable in themselves, and that the communities that exist there are important and should be preserved, as well as highlighting how this is overshadowed constantly by the prioritisation of profit and private sector gains.

EXCEEDING THE RECOMMENDED DOSAGE: THE RED PILL

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged documentary, domestic violence, feminism, film-making, gender, men's issues, men's rights, men's rights activism, men's rights activists, men's rights movement, mra, mras, the red pill.

by Richard Worth

Content warning: domestic abuse, gender-based violence. Contains Spoilers for The Red Pill

I’ve been waiting for a decent documentary about Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) for a while now. Because I prefer not flying into fits of rage, I’ve avoided MRAs on the internet like the plague. What I know of them are second-hand accounts and logically baffling retweets. An impenetrable layer of laziness and self-preservation means that I have been waiting for someone else to do the hard work of getting to the core of what MRAs believe, why they believe it, and whether or not I should take it seriously.

The Christmas before last, I was excited to see Reggie Yates tackle the subject in his show Reggie Yates Extreme UK, Men at War. But, like with everything on TV around Christmas, I was pretty disappointed. Yates only touched on what we all already know about MRAs and didn’t really delve much deeper. On top of that, though Yates is personable, his interview style let me down. I felt he didn’t challenge the rape-profiteer and professional sack of shit Roosh V enough, and was then too combative with the teenage YouTuber with toilet roll next to his bed. Not that the kid didn’t need a bollocking, he was after all being quite sexist as well as frequently masturbating and/or crapping the bed, but I felt the journalist’s approach was all over the place.

Enter: The Red Pill.

REVIEW – TRANSGENDER KIDS: WHO KNOWS BEST?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged bbc, blockers, CAMH, Cheri DiNovo, child psychology, doctors, documentary, gender dysphoria, gender-positive, genderqueer, Herschel, homosexuality, hormones, horror, Hospital, Ken Zucker, LGBT+, media, medical, mental health, mental illness, NHS, non conforming, non-binary, parents, review, sexual reassignment surgery, suicide, television, theory, trans, trans activism, transgender, Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?, transition, TV.

by Zoe Harding

On the same night Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? aired (Thursday 12th), an apparently rather excellent documentary named Hospital exposed the difficult conditions under which the modern NHS works, bringing it to the attention of the nation that if you get sick and go to an NHS hospital, you’ll be treated by a doctor who’s working shifts more commonly seen in 19th-century coal mines while the Prime Minister calls them lazy. It was quite good. The subjects of Hospital (doctors) seem to have loved it. No such luck for the subjects of BBC2’s other documentary that night, however. Continue Reading

TRUTH OR FICTION? THE WORLD OF HYPERNORMALISATION

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Adam Curtis, Alexei Yurchak, arts, Brexit, conspiracy, cyberspace, documentary, echo chamber, exposé, fiction, film, humanity, hypernormalisation, meatspace, narrative, novel, politics, postmodern, power, psyche, review, Soviet, surreal, Trump, truth, writing.

by Liam Hawkes

Surreal. Beautiful. Terrifying. Adam Curtis’ newest documentary can be described in many ways. It bombards us with messages and narratives which seem to have emancipatory power by simply exposing the chains we all appear to wear. This mesmerising piece of film-making taps into the psyche of human consciousness, getting to the root of how we feel and why we feel it. Once again Curtis has created a terrifying exposé of the confusing and uncertain world we live in.
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THE RIGHT TO HATE: SEX, SCIENCE, AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged aggression, animal behaviour, biology, Blurred Lines, Carry that Weight, consent, consent culture, discourse, documentary, human behaviour, Kerry Sulkowicz, language, mating, meaning, Norfolk Police, rape, Rape culture, right to mate, SAAC, science, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, Thicke, words.

by Paige Selby-Green

TW: sexual assault, rape.

It’s time we talked about sex. Or, actually – it’s time we talked about how we talk about sex. For people who put sex in every conceivable form of media, we get awfully squeamish when it comes to talking about it like grown-ups. We’d rather let ways of talking about sex remain unchanged for decades than update them to be less 1950s and a lot more healthy.

Let’s get to the point: how is it that the same species that can build spaceships and write masterpieces such as Hamilton came up with the phrase “the right to mate?” And why is it still in common use?Continue Reading

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO RADICAL FILM — 11AM, APRIL 30TH, NORWICH ARTS CENTRE

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged documentary, film, film festival, flm making, guerrilla film making, Humberto Perez-Blanco, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, radical film.

Disclaimer: The Norwich Radical is not associated with The Norwich Radical Film Festival.

by Jack Brindelli

Film is often wrongly pigeon-holed as a passive medium — simple entertainment to be used for distraction or escapism. But throughout its history, cinema has never been ‘just entertainment’. At its best, film-making is combative, subversive and revolutionary.

Norwich is a city built on a proud Radical heritage, and the inaugural Norwich Radical Film Festival aims to build on that legacy to inspire the community to engage with ideas and movies that will shake the world. As the first of four monthly events leading to our main festival in August, we are proud to present “A Beginner’s Guide to Radical Film”, taking place on Saturday 30^th April 2016 between 11:00–16:00 at the Norwich Arts Centre.Continue Reading

UNIVERSITIES AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: THE HUNTING GROUND

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Student and tagged documentary, documentary review, education, film, film review, fraternity, Hunting Ground, lad culture, review, sexual assault, trigger warning, TW, uk, university, US.

TW: rape, sexual assault, sex-shaming

by Asia Patel

On the 15th April 2015, the Union of UEA students held a free film screening of The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on american college campuses. It was made by the same Academy Award-nominated team that created The Invisible War, a film about sexual assault in the United States Military. The documentary was followed by a skype call with the director, Kirby Dick, and a discussion with a panel consisting of Holly Staynor (Welfare, Community and Diversity Officer), Beth Smith (Women’s Officer), Anjali Menezes (Sexual Assault Awareness Committee), and me from the UEA Feminist Society Committee.

The documentary itself focused on the stories of survivors of sexual assault, particularly of Andrea Pino and Annie E. Clark, two former students at the University of North Carolina who were raped on campus. In the US, reports such as those of sexual assault can be dealt with solely by the college itself, with people in place to decide relevant actions to be taken upon attackers, and to support survivors. However, when these two survivors reported their rapes, they were not supported by their university.

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ICE ICE BABY – ‘THE INFILTRATORS’ AND THE SHADOW OF FOR-PROFIT DETAINMENT FACILITIES

EXCEEDING THE RECOMMENDED DOSAGE: THE RED PILL

REVIEW – TRANSGENDER KIDS: WHO KNOWS BEST?

TRUTH OR FICTION? THE WORLD OF HYPERNORMALISATION

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO RADICAL FILM — 11AM, APRIL 30TH, NORWICH ARTS CENTRE

UNIVERSITIES AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: THE HUNTING GROUND

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