Cinema Politica screening | Urban Disobedience Toolkit
Join us for a free Cinema Politica Groningen documentary screening: Urban Disobedience Toolkit. A documentary about how artists and activists reclaim a gentrified Prague with creative interventions and anarchist monkey-wrenching to show how a more egalitarian city is possible.
About the Documentary
Urban Disobedience Toolkit explores the evolving dynamics of public space in big cities, showing how art can inspire people to reclaim and reshape their urban environments. Through artistic interventions and performative lectures, the film illustrates ways to “take back the city.” These elements are seamlessly interwoven under the direction of artist and filmmaker Vladimír Turner, who has spent nearly two decades dedicated to art in public space. The title, Urban Disobedience Toolkit, highlights the avant-garde potential of art — not as mere decoration, but as a radical intervention and a driving force against technocratic perceptions of the world.
All of our documentaries are in English or include English subtitles. Our screenings are free and open to all.
After Talk
After each film, we host a lively discussion with experts on the film’s topic, followed by Q&A for audience questions. This screening we will be joined on stage by Marline Lisette Wilders (Assistant Professor Arts in Society at UCG) and artist Paes Leão, whos artistic journey has increasingly embraced creative forms of civil disobedience and collective strategy, seeking concrete social change.
Moderated by Johan Kolsteeg (Arts, Culture & Society - Faculty of Arts).
As our partner USVA has limited seating, we do ask you to register via the link below.
About Cinema Politica:
Cinema Politica is a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to supporting the work of independent, political filmmakers. CP is headquartered in Canada with local chapters that organise screenings all around the world. The Faculty of Arts is proud to host the Cinema Politica Groningen chapter.
Cinema Politica offers films on a wide variety of themes: Human rights, politics, globalisation, art, activism, refugee/migrants, war/conflict, social movements and many more.
Here at the Faculty of Arts, we will choose titles that have a relation to the research being done at our faculty in particular. All of the documentaries are in English or include English subtitles. Our screenings are free and open to all. After each film, we host a lively discussion with experts from the Faculty of Arts and beyond, followed by Q&A for audience questions.
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Interested in teaming up with one of our next political documentary screenings? We love to collaborate with experts and community members from the area. Send an email to: cinemapolitica@rug.nl
