[Frameworks] Nov 8 and 28 film screenings: Spectacle Theater brooklyn, ny

Fri Nov 3 14:11:47 UTC 2017

*Spectacle Theater presents* ....

LABOR LOST AND FOUND

films by Mark Street, Lizzie Olesker, Lynne Sachs and George Franju
Nov 8 and 28, 2017
Filmmakers present for screenings (Franju as ghost).
7:30 PM - $5

Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd St
<https://maps.google.com/?q=124+South+3rd+St&entry=gmail&source=g>. (in
Williamsburg, near Bedford St.)
Brooklyn

Link to site:http://www.spectacletheater.com/labor-lost-and-found/
<http://www.spectacletheater.com/>

*Looking at what we all do for some half of our waking adult life is always
revealing.  Once this particular level of inquiry begins it can address a
myriad of issues including class disparity, existential questions and
whether dreams are deferred or denied.  Through interviews, observational
vignettes, historical tracings these films investigate the world of work in
unexpected and invigorating ways. *

"Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
Bring me my boots and shoes
You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline
Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues"  Bob Dylan

*Brooklyn Premiere!Oiltowns*
41 min. by Mark Street, 2017

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Link to film trailer:
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBgEJSUPdI&spfreload=10*
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBgEJSUPdI&spfreload=10>

*Oiltowns* traces boom and bust cycles in and around the town of Williston,
North Dakota. Interviews with oil workers, longtime residents, ranchers and
the homeless focus on changes that have animated the small town. Pump jacks
dig rhythmically on desolate highways, trucks lumber on small roads, gas
flares in the distance, new homes are built at breakneck speed, abandoned
RVs seem to rust before our eyes. A Turtle Mountain Native American talks
about the rampant prostitution and drug use that has burgeoned as a result
of itinerant workers arriving with lots of money to spend. Three drunk men
banter in front of a trailer they share as the sun goes down. A former
Chicago policeman sells hot dogs from a stand from 10AM to 10 PM every day
alongside a highway teeming with oil trucks. *Oiltowns* offers a
microscopic view of unbridled capitalism in which expectations are exceeded
and dashed. In the Bakken formation, oil is THE game in town, and its
discovery and extraction brings unexpected consequences and environmental
blight.

*Oiltowns* reveals an ensemble of people who have chased the American Dream
all across the country, as well as those who have seen it appear on their
doorstep. The Bakken formation in North Dakota has yielded almost 1 million
barrels of oil a day. Oil exploration and recovery has brought
unprecedented wealth to the region, which was primarily an agrarian economy
before oil was discovered. Money, and the transient workers who make and
spend it, has enlivened the community economically, but at great social
cost. Drugs and prostitution proliferate, and the infrastructure is ill
equipped to handle the influx of people. Housing prices have skyrocketed;
some workers live in ‘man camps’ provided by oil companies. It’s a place
where residents check the price of oil daily and impermanence is the only
constant.

As we in the United States ponder whether energy independence is possible
or desirable, and how much to invest in renewable energy sources, *Oiltowns*
examines the ramifications of the footprint of the oil industry on a small
community. Audience members can see for themselves some of the
environmental and social problems created by increased development, but
also some of the infectious spirit of the workers who moved to North Dakota
determined to work hard to send money back home.

*The Washing Society*
7 min. excerpt by Lizzie Olesker & Lynne Sachs, 2018

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When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who’s doing the washing and
folding?  This film brings you into New York City laundromats and the
experiences of the people who work there. With a title inspired by the 1881
organization of African-American laundresses, *The Washing Society*
investigates the intersection of history, underpaid work, immigration, and
the sheer math of doing laundry.
Catch a sneak work-in-progress preview of part of our movie!

*Blood of the Beasts*20 minutes by Georges Franju, 1949

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A shocking observational portrait of Paris *abbatoirs.  *“George Franju’s
1949 film Le Sang Des Bêtes is one of the most beautiful and horrifying
movies ever made. Filmed in the backstreets of Paris, Franju contrasts
bucolic scenes of fog-shrouded streets, canals, deserted junkyards and
children playing, with the nightmarish events taking place within two
slaughterhouses. Marcel Fradetal’s stunning black and white cinematography
turns the horrific into a brutal kind of poetry that if it had been shot in
color would be unbearable.” -Dangerous Minds
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