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SUMMARY:[SOLIDARITY] Resistance of Vision Film Festival
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DESCRIPTION:Event details: https://xrboston.org/action/solidarity-resistan
 ce-of-vision-film-festival/\n\nRESISTANCE OF VISION is a touring festival 
 presented by the 27-year-old 501c3 non-profit arts organization San Franci
 sco IndieFest\, comprising four programs of short films roughly 90 minutes
  in length that will premiere in May 2025 with both virtual on-demand scre
 enings [on their website ](https://resistanceofvision.eventive.org/welcome
 ) and also in-person screenings in Boston\, San Francisco\, Wichita and Bi
 rmingham.\n\n1. When we Arrive as Flowers Susan O'Brien\, 5 min\, USA (OUR
  BODIES\, OUR CHOICE) \nWhen We Arrive as Flowers\, follows Diovanna\, a N
 ew York-based trans Afro-Latinx dancer as she realizes her transfemme iden
 tity through a choreographic journey of self-discovery\, celebration\, and
  the poetic metaphor of a flower coming into bloom. Full film: https://vim
 eo.com/840442584\n\n2. Nomads in the City Moliana Alpha Muller Mundy\, 14 
 min\, Spain (WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?) \nNomads in the City is a short docum
 entary film that gives insight into the Squatter community of modern Londo
 n. From the perspective of females and queers\, we explore how routine mov
 ement and evictions affect their day-to-day life\, navigating the growing 
 housing crisis and exploring alternative forms of living. Trailer: https:/
 /vimeo.com/679046893\n\n3. Ancestral Call Sonia Kennebeck\, Tetiana Anders
 on\, 16 min\, USA (FIGHT THE POWER) \nDanielle Scott\, a legally blind Bla
 ck\, Polish-Jewish\, and Asian mixed-media artist at the cusp of internati
 onal fame\, risks her own well-being by exposing herself to the intergener
 ational trauma of the Atlantic Slave Trade. She traces her ancestors' live
 s for a greater purpose: creating art that reveals the wretched pain and i
 ntense beauty of the era while guiding her audience through an experientia
 l journey toward healing and hope. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1023345332\n
 \n4. Roll Down The Window Lipa Hussain\, 10 min\, UK (FIGHT THE POWER) \nF
 ilmmaker Lipa Hussain interrogates a neurological condition she has experi
 enced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religio
 us and racial struggles. Alice In Wonderland syndrome causes the sensation
  of shrinking and losing bodily control. The film explores the idea of uti
 lizing AIW to confront an enemy from Lipa’s past. Trailer: https://vimeo
 .com/990039720\n\n5. Black Tide Kim Yip Tong\, 13 min France (THIS IS AN E
 MERGENCY) \nOn July 25\, 2020\, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground o
 n the reef on the east coast of Mauritius. Twelve days later\, oil began t
 o spill\, causing the worst ecological disaster ever to occur in the regio
 n. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/951605081 \n\n6. Feeling the Apocalypse Chen
  Sing Yap\, 7 min\, USA (THIS IS AN EMERGENCY) \nA psychotherapist struggl
 ing with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world. 
 Trailer: https://vimeo.com/679046893\n\n7. Local One Stephen Maing\, Brett
  Story\, 10 min\, USA (WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?) \nThe Amazon Labor Union ma
 de history in 2022 by becoming the first group to successfully unionize an
  Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Two and a half years later\, the company has
  refused to recognize the union and bargain a contract. To pressure the co
 mpany to start negotiating\, the Amazon Labor Union\, now affiliated with 
 the International Brotherhood of Teamsters\, launches a nationwide strike 
 during peak holiday shopping season. From the filmmakers of the Award-winn
 ing film Union\, Local One takes us into the first days of the strike at t
 wo Amazon warehouses in New York City\, this time in solidarity with hundr
 eds more workers across the country. Full film: https://www.youtube.com/wa
 tch?v=7zxlCIvnMbo\n\n8. Resist: The Resistance Revival Chorus Susan O'Brie
 n\, 19 min\, USA\nIn the midst of a country divided\, a diverse group of w
 omen and non-binary individuals unite through the historic power of music 
 to create a movement ignited by song. Full film: https://vimeo.com/8082676
 33\n\n**Total running time: 95 minutes**
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LOCATION:The Brattle Theatre\, 40 Brattle St.\, Cambridge MA
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