Recycling the Newsreel with Paul McIsaac

France, 2007, 62 mins
Director: Ivora Cusack, James Schneider

Description

Through the lens of archival footage from the '60s radical film
collective, The Newsreel, and engaging interviews with Paul McIsaac,
one of its main activists, Recycling the Newsreel explores the history
of radical social movements in North America and the key role of
independent media in resistance.

With both rare and familiar clips featuring everyone from the Black
Panther Party to the Yippies, and images of resistance to the war in
Vietnam, the film offers a unique glimpse into the '60s, a time of
incredible defiance and creativity.

Recycling the Newsreel is more than a retrospective, it is a challenge
to contemporary filmmakers and activists about the importance of
stories, collaboration and art in building and sustaining movements
for radical social change.

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