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Anarchism: A Documentary completes ‘primary filming’
For those who haven't heard, the filmmakers Anarchism behind Anarchism: A Documentary have completed their primary filming and interviewing of anarchists across the globe. While they didn't raise all the funds they needed, and thus couldn't make it to France and Germany, we wanted to pass on that your shirt and book purchases from thoughtcrime ink allowed them to interview anarchists elsewhere across the world.
"For now, we’re content with the 101 interviews we have filmed so far in Africa, South America, North America and Europe. We didn’t set out to make a comprehensive ethnographic and representative study of anarchism in every country and every city of the world, but instead wanted to have a suitably diverse, internationalist, non-Euro/US-centric look at anarchism, and even if we don’t manage to raise more funding for further primary filming, we feel that we’ve succeeded in this initial task. We interviewed young and old anarchists, men, women and transgendered folks (even though we always struggled to find enough women who would commit to talking in front of a camera), anarchists from very diverse tendencies (although we had to ignore the emails from the occasional anarcho-capitalists and national anarchists enthusiastically offering themselves up for interviews), regions and ethnic groups. We have footage in English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese."
We're very excited about Steffi and Aragorn's project. When they first told us about it, we immediately saw how the film fills a needed gap— a recent documentary done in a relatively straightforward way that explains anarchism to people who aren't anarchists, that is actually representative of what anarchists believe and do to confront social and environmental crises before us. You can read more from their tour diary here, and about the project here.
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