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Transmissions with Juliet Jacques

London based writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques curates the third episode of Transmissions Season 2, entitled Spectres of Socialism.

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TimesWed 23 Sep from 21.00 Fri 25 Sep from 10.00
SpaceStreamed Live via Transmissions TV
PriceFree

Less than a year after the UK’s traumatic General Election and after a pandemic that would surely have been far better handled if the principles of communality and solidarity had been at the heart of government, Juliet Jacques presents a selection of films that mostly look back at socialist politics and culture.

Starting with comrade John Smith’s film made in response to the Covid-19 crisis, and the government’s chaotic communications, these films – by Jasmina Cibic, Octavia Cortázar, The Duvet Brothers, Deimantas Narkevičius, Oleksiy Radynski, Kerry Tribe and others – engage creatively with ideology and art in Yugoslavia, the USSR, Cuba, the UK and beyond.

Image credit: Jasmina Cibic, The Pavilion, 2015, Image Courtesy Jasmina Cibic.