Images Festival | Surrendur: In Conversation with Karthik Pandian Images Festival is North America's longest-running festival dedicated to the moving image.

Follow-up conversation with poet M. NourbeSe Philip on Monday, April 13th at 2:30pm at CineCycle

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Poster for film Surrendur. A forsythia flower falls onto a woofer

Surrendur | World Premiere Karthik Pandian USA | 2026 | DCP | 86 min | English, Spanish, K'iche, Tamil, Anishinaabemowin, and Dakota with English subtitles in select scenes. A mandala for falling monuments, for falling into relation, for opening the manasu-meaning both heart and mind in Tamil-to the frequency of love in revolt transmitted from Minneapolis and conducted by artist Karthik Pandian with activists Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe) and Ta Peljuta Wičháhpi Win (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate), and Jamaican sonic sculptor Douglas R. Ewart.

surren •dur a mandala for falling monuments, for falling into relation, for opening the o&' the frequency of love in revolt ren dur to describe this world, destroy it, open the portal to the next, and repeat en•dur expanding time communing there

Surrendur transmits the stories of Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe-the American Indian Movement activist who orchestrated the toppling of a monument to Christopher Columbus-and Ta Pe'juta Wičháhpi Win (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate), whose political consciousness was awoken when she danced around the fallen statue with her daughter. The George Floyd Uprising, the Anishinaabe Seven Fires Prophecy, and the Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride are interwoven through the director's unique style of editing nonsynchronous 16mm film and sound. Oscillating between intimate conversation and kinetic montage, Surrendur traces the riverine network of migration and homecoming, chance encounter, and carefully cultivated collaboration that drew Pandian into deep relation with Forcia, Win, and other luminous activists and artists from Minneapolis, the heart of revolt at the centre of Turtle Island. 1 Translated from Tamil as manasu, meaning both heart and mind.

my first feature film SURRENDUR world premieres at Images Festival in Toronto on Friday, April 10th at 7:30pm at Innis Town Hall cinema

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Oglala Sioux Tribe accuses federal authorities of treaty violation after four members detained by ICE “Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are United States citizens. We are the first Americans.”

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

Love and Protect your Neighbors Don't Trust the Feds

"Love and Protect your Neighbors Don't Trust the Feds" seen on a Minneapolis middle school.

South Minneapolis, January 2026

Places to Donate to in Minnesota Buy/Donate Materials: Help buy dashcams for legal observers Bethel Church Food Pantry TC Food Justice: Donate food Mutual Aid Funds: Lyndale School Mutual Aid Fund Rent Relief Fund for Southside Fami...

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.

If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

I’m halfway through Beloved right now. Completely entranced. This passage…

a painting of a sad long faced white woman

A typed poem titled "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #96: POEM AT DAWN" reads, "Empire is its own undoing." The author, Diane di Prima, is credited below the poem. The text appears on a plain white background.

a lovely sequence of Vietnamese extras making fun of Coppola for eating mango skin on the set of Apocalypse Now “we peel it. we’re civilized”

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil

The end of Claire Denis’ Beau Travail!

this thread 👇🏾

brilliant thread

totally normal day in MA rescuing a squirrel trapped in a badminton net

How timely still, now: a powerful exhibition of early 2000s protest signs by local antiwar activist Bill Jennings, installed at the historic Shaker Meeting House in Harvard, MA. Curated by @luciddecapitation.bsky.social and @transientbummers.bsky.social

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

Sunday July 6th at 3pm on the Harvard Town Common we carry hand painted signs by Bill Jennings created in protest of the Iraq War two decades ago. What has changed? What remains the same? Come join us: maps.app.goo.gl/VuLzzT1dvQEE...

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

“the Arabians”?

“collective self-defense” smdh

nonsense. basketball was not invented. it was given to us by the gods

peak doomscrolling

reminder that Lincoln presided over the largest mass hanging in US history #dakota38+2

A handsome Samoan American man smiling

A young Latino punk with a goofy smile and a mohawk, wearing a leather jacket

The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people:

A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died.

A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.

Never has it been clearer that “no one is free until Palestine is free” is not a chant but a warning, as we all stare into the abyss of another world war.

Thousands of people and placards are seen in front of the state capitol. This photo is a credit to Minneapolis photojournalist that goes by the handle Daviss on X

Thousands of people and placards are seen in front of the state capitol. This photo is a credit to Minneapolis photojournalist that goes by the handle Daviss on X

A woman protestor holds up a sign that reads “In honor of our beloved Melissa”

NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose.

This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

DEFIANCE. 👏

#NoKings #50501Movement

(📸 Daviss)