[Frameworks] 3 films about WORK Spectacle Theater Brooklyn Tue Nov 28

[Mark Street]

*Spectacle Theater presents* ....

LABOR LOST AND FOUND

films by Mark Street, Lizzie Olesker, Lynne Sachs and George Franju
Tuesday, Nov  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


*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.

*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

Preview YouTube video oiltowns trailer
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBgEJSUPdI&authuser=0>
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