October 8 - 7:00pm
Interviews with My Lai Veterans Joseph Strick (1970) 22 mins. The recollections of 5 American soldiers present at the infamous massacre of Vietnamese villagers on 16 March 1968. Co-photograped by Haskell Wexler.
Hearts & Minds Bruce Petty (1968) 22 mins. Petty’s 1st film, made with Phillip Adams, combines footage of Vietnam with some of his newspaper cartoons, building to a strong anti-war statement.
The Lottery Larry Yust (1969) 18 mins. Adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s chilling Gothic story about a small American town & its annual lottery ritual draws strong parallels with the Draft.
October 8 - 8:15pm
Loeb Wiess (1968) 68 mins
This highly effective documentary draws thick-lined parallels between the peace & civil rights movements of the 1960s (& beyond). Weiss takes his 16mm camera into the thick of the Harlem Fall Mobilization March, an anti-Vietnam War procession held in New York. This action is anchored by the stories of 3 very angry black Vietnam veterans, articulately conveying their disillusionment with a system that simultaneously asks for their lives while denying their civil liberties.
October 8 - 9:30pm
Emile de Antonio (1970) 98 mins
One of a series of De Antonio’s radical films that document the seismic & cataclysmic events of post-war America & its political system. Following his dissection of JFK’s assassination in Rush to Judgement, De Antonio charts the ultimate failure of the liberal left to effectively counter the divisive politics of the conservative right. Following Eugene McCarthy’s failed campaign for the US presidency, & documenting the epochal Chicago Democratic Convention, it provides one of the most politically engaged, enraged & complex portraits of the tumultuous year of 1968.