Saturday, February 16 at 2 PM
Please join us for a screening of All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story (2016; 101 min.) and live Q&A with the director, Marisa Holmes.
The MAC is pleased to present, as part of its current exhibition, Working Groups by Carolyn Sortor and Michael A. Morris, a film screening on Saturday, February 16 at 2 PM, at its new home in the Cedars located at 1503 S. Ervay St (parking in back off of Sullivan St).
The documentary film, “All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story,” tells the story of the Occupy movement. In 2011, occupations of public spaces were taking place across the globe, as people rose up in response to the global financial crisis and for real democracy. Marisa Holmes was centrally involved in the Occupy movement and shot footage from its beginning through the eviction of the OWS camp from the heart of the world’s most important financial center. Her beautiful and moving film gives an intimate view of aspects ignored by traditional media, shedding light on the movement’s highs and lows as well as on next steps.
Marisa Holmes is an organizer, educator, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. For over ten years she has been active in social movements including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. She has produced, directed, and edited two feature films, All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story and Degage! as well as numerous documentary shorts. Her work has appeared on PBS, Al Jazeera, Nawaat, Paris-Luttes, Truthout, Waging Non-violence, and the AK Press compilation We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, and has taught documentary film at CUNY. Currently, she is the director of Paper Tiger Television, and working on a book about new social movements and media.
Marisa Holmes is an organizer, educator, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. For over ten years she has been active in social movements including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. She has produced, directed, and edited two feature films, “All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story” and “Degage!” as well as numerous documentary shorts. Her work has appeared on PBS, Al Jazeera, Nawaat, Paris-Luttes, Truthout, Waging Non-violence, and the AK Press compilation We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, and has taught documentary film at CUNY. Currently, she is the director of Paper Tiger Television, and working on a book about new social movements and media.
The MAC’s current exhibition, Working Groups, celebrates the permanent installation of books and other materials assembled as part of the OccuLibrary project. Working Groups contextualizes these materials and reviews some of the accomplishments of the Occupy movement and its offshoots, seeking “empowering info” and inspiration for next steps in both art and “reality.”
The OccuLibrary project was initiated in 2011 following the eviction of Occupy camps across the U.S. and the destruction of the libraries that had spontaneously sprung up within them (more than 3,000 books were lost in New York City alone). The project was conceived as a rolling collaboration in which various artists were invited to create reincarnations of the destroyed libraries, “using aesthetically-informed strategies to lure awareness toward empowering info.”
Reincarnations of the OccuLibrary have taken the forms of, among other things, mobile and “secret” libraries, an exhibition of works by internationally-known artists, a reading group that met for two years, and a series of children’s programs. Collaborating artists have included Karen Weiner, Lizzy Wetzel, Greg Metz, Danette Dufilho, Anne Lawrence, Regina Yunker Rudnicki, Oil and Cotton, Frank & Celia Eberle, Sally Glass, Cassandra Emswiler Burd, Andrea Tosten, Michael A. Morris, Carolyn Sortor, and more.
Various Occupy “working groups” and others including Akshat Tewary have contributed to the new exhibition, which includes a display highlighting changes made to strengthen bank regulations under Dodd-Frank in accordance with a 325-page comment letter sent by the “Occupy the SEC” group.
The physical library assembled through donations by the artists and many others for use in various OccuLibrary reincarnations comprises books on art, politics, economics, philosophy and other subjects as well as fiction, zines, drawings, and other materials. These now find their permanent home at the MAC and will be available for use by the public.