The collective’s first manifesto piece clarifying their positions & aims. This beautiful  risograph-printed single-page foldout is a must-have for all those interested in radical cinema!

Released by Cinemóvil NYC, a revolutionary mobile cinema collective spreading revolutionary culture throughout NYC and beyond. They put on guerrilla screenings and programming for the community.

Excerpt:

◆ In Locating A People’s Cinema ◆

“Revolutionary cinema, as it reaches maturity, can only be collective, just as the revolution itself is collective.” (Jorge Sanjinés, ‘Problems of Form and Content in Revolutionary Cinema’)

Cinema, in its most vital expression, has been one of perishingly few sites of collective dreaming and expression in our post-industrial, atomized world. At its best, it has transformed knowledge and empathy into action. At its worst (and most common), it has reinforced hegemonic structures — from cops to corporations.

Today we find ourselves living through the worst era of cinematic art in the history of the medium. Mainstream film production & exhibition is now managed and micro-managed by a handful of multinational corporations whose only interest is in maximizing profits for their shareholders. To get specific, six corporations control over 90% of the media consumed by the American population. Rather than rebel against this hegemony, the purveyors of independent cinema seem content existing only to perpetuate themselves within old corporate & nonprofit frameworks, carving out a niche to continue distributing their little bourgeois reveries to diminishing theatrical audiences, and disengaged (and distracted) at-home streamers.