Upcoming film series at the Flying Brick Library
506 s. Pine Street.
The FlyingBrick Library Presents: Moving Images – Aseries of six movies to educate and ponder while it’s still coldoutside. Come to the library on Thursday evenings and watch somedocumentaries about real people’s struggles and triumphs withus.
The Library is at 506 S. Pine St. and can be accessed by wheelchair
Thursday, February 7 7:30 pm
UP THE RIDGE: A one-hour documentary by Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirbyabout a maximum security prison in Virginia. In 1999 Szuberla andKirby were DJ’s for Appalachia’s only hip-hop radio program inWhitesburg, KY when they received hundreds of letters from inmatestransferred into nearby Wallens Ridge, the region’s newest prisonbuilt to prop up the shrinking coal economy. Filming began thatyear. The movie gives an in-depth look at the U.S. prison industryand the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-cityminority offenders to distant rural outposts.
‘When I visitedWallens Ridge in the spring of 1999, it was new and as yetunoccupied…It was both lavishly expensive and needlessly remote,built not because it was needed but because it was wanted bypoliticians who thought it would bring them votes.” –Joseph T.Hallinan Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation, 2001
Thursday, February 21 7:30 pm
WINTER SOLDIER: Adocumentary about the Winter Soldier Investigation, a publicinquiry into war crimes committed by American forces in Vietnam, heldat a Howard Johnson motel in Detroit in February 1971. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War organized this event where morethan 125 veterans spoke of atrocities they had witnessed andcommitted.
On the 37 year anniversaryof this event the words of one participant veteran are eerilyrelevant:
‘Wegathered not to sensationalize our service but to decry the travestythat was Lt. William Calley’strial for the My Lai Massacre…if Calley were responsible, sowere his superiors up the chain of command, even to the president.The causes of My Lai and the brutality of the Vietnam War were rootedin the policies of our government as executed by our militarycommanders.’ –DonaldDzagulones,
AndLater: No! The Rape Documentary-about African-Americanwomen’s experiences, THIRST!-about water privatization, TheTake-about workers seizing control of factories in Argentina andWetback-documenting theexperiences of migrant workers crossing the border.