The After Party2012
Recognition
What makes this film worth watching?
"Within the first 5 minutes... I was hooked." - Cal Jeralin, Filmbalaya
Directed By
Executive Produced By
Produced By
- Caty Borum
- Bret Burgess
- Susan Chainey
- Jon Fine
- Donovan Leitch, Jr.
- Zachary David Medow
- Michael Schiller
Cinematography
Edited By
Written By
Member Reviews (5)
Another particularly noble reason for film ruined by a filmmaker more concerned with his image than the message.
Fuck the NSA
Pre-Citizenfour (by a decade) surveillance tactics deployed by the New York City Police Department in cooperation with the Republican National Convention. Mass arrests and constitutional violations while Cheney wraps himself in the bloody flag of 9/11. Disturbing in the infiltration of protest groups by federal and other agencies.
The film continuously pits "freedom" against "security," and in doing so accepts and reaffirms the very terms of the ideological binary that mystifies class exploitation and imperialist genocide, the true sources of both American "freedom" and American "security." The United States has always been a terrorist police state; it is not a recent perversion that the State uses surveillance to repress anything it perceives as a potential challenge to prevailing material relations. The story "these people did nothing wrong so why were they arrested?" is neither interesting nor radical. It offers a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the State and of meaningful resistance, both organizationally and discursively.
WOW! THAT WAS INCREDIBLE AND EYE OPENING. THIS IS A MUST WATCH. I HAD NO IDEA THISN WAS GOING ON TO THIS EXTREME.