❗Updated date❗This Stained Dawn (Anam Abbas, 2021)
❄️Deep Viennese Winter Edition❄️
Hey, sleepy creature,
wake up! How is the Viennese winter treating you? 🏔️
You have one week to get ready to leave your cosy nest, covered in your warmest clothes, to reach us at W23 for the last Cinema Politica Vienna screening of 2023 (but, shh, stay tuned)!
This time, the screening is cohosted with Piazza Kollektiv (Pi.Ko) 🌱
…what do Pi.Ko people do?
In their words, they
meet regularly to discuss and learn collectively about a range of interrelated struggles. From feminism, LGBTQIA+ fights and anticapitalsim to environmental justice, more are to come. One topic is Italian politics, since many of the group’s members come from/have lived in Italy. Care practices are also at PiKo’s core, and collaboration with other local groups is always welcome. Once a month, the group hosts AperiPiKo, an open-community evening.
Together, we are going to screen This Stained Dawn, a powerful documentary by Anam Abbas on the struggles of a Pakistani feminist movement:
Detailing the preparation of the multi-city Aurat March (Women’s March) in Pakistan, This Stained Dawn tells the story of a feminist movement asserting itself in the country’s urban spaces through the eyes of the march’s organisers. Just a few weeks before the start of the pandemic, 10,000 protesters gathered in Karachi. Filmmaker Anam Abbas follows the organisers of the march as they negotiate a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of spurring a revolution. The film’s approach is, suitably, a polyphonic one. Observational footage of the event’s planning and orchestration mixes with animation, and archive, tracing a history of the state suppression of women’s resistance in Pakistan and illuminating the urgency of the unfolding struggle of today, where “my body, my choice” becomes a controversial slogan that holds the country’s imagination in its grip. What emerges is a philosophical work, not just about the Aurat March, but about the act of political organising itself.
Accompanied by the film director, we will have the chance to reflect on the ways in which feminist movements fight, resist, and shine bright⚡
After the screening, there will be time for discussion!
…see you there! ❄️
📆 Tuesday 12th of December (not Wednesday 13th, as previously written)
⏰ The screening starts at 8.00pm, doors are open from 7.30pm (FB event here)
📌 Vienna: W23, Wipplingerstr. 23
💸 Entrance is, as usual, free!
Rapid tests and FFP2 masks are available at the bar counter for a free donation🤗 Let’s take care of each other!
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This screening of CP Vienna is supported by the Austrian National Union of Students ❤️🔥