Transmission Gallery Do You Remember Revolution?
Sun 9 March 2014

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Do You Remember Revolution? (Loredana Bianconi, 1997) is a feature length documentary in which four women, who were active in the Red Brigades in 1970's Italy, reflect on their experiences of armed struggle. The film takes its title from a 1983 text co-written by 11 imprisoned activists from the Workers’ Autonomy Movement, including Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno. That document was published as an attempt by participants in the struggle to take a voice in the narrative of how that struggle was historicised - all the signatories were male.
In this documentary Loredana Bianconi allows four women who were leading members of the Red Brigades to speak without interruption about their personal experiences of politics, activism, armed struggle and through this the particular experiences of women within the movement. Speaking either from prison or following release under amnesty, the women also reflect on what it is to hold political beliefs in a changing external political context.
This screening is programmed by Katherine MacBride in collaboration with Transmission Gallery.