The Supplementary School Film Club: Harlan County, USA (1976)

Arrangør: Amber Ablett
Dato: Torsdag 25. januar
Tid: 18:00 - 21:00
Rom: Bergen Kjøtt Bar (1. etasje)
Billetter: Free entry! Free Soup and bread!

Mer info:
The first film of the new season will be Harland county, USA, a 1976 documentary following the Brookside Strike in 1973. The film documents the efforts of the coal miners, their families and community to secure safer working conditions and fair page from the Duke Power Company in Harlan County, Kentucky.

”Starting the new season of the film club with this documentary, raises important questions how we navigate being witness to oppression and genocide at the current time: what is the responsibility of witnessing, how can we use our power and access for collective liberation and how do we hold space for both loss and hope? As the host of SSFC, I’ve chosen this film to start the season, to help us reflect on the power of people coming together and mass mobilisation.

The director, Barbara Kopple and her team were initially nicknamed “the hippy group from New York” when they started documenting the community’s stand against Duke Power and I hope the film will open discussion on what is our responsibility as witnesses of a genocide taking place before our eyes and do we have a responsibility to be a witness?” - Amber Ablette

Amber Ablett is an artist, writer and educator based in Bergen, Norway. Using performance, text, sound and re-enactment, her work looks at the importance of belonging to how we be together, with a focus on how our society shapes, reflects, controls and limits our multifaceted identities. Ablett uses her own position, as a mixed race woman living in Norway, as a starting point to create a space for questioning communality and shared thinking; she is interested in how we learn about ourselves through learning about other people. Stepping away from spectacle, Ablett often uses workshops and gatherings as a platform to share and open up her practice.