I just watched #StrangeVictory and it was, at turns, intellectually consoling (we've been here before) & then bleak AF. Have you seen it? Definitely up your alley & in open access. I just learned about it 2 days ago & watched yesterday. leohurwitz.com/movie/strang...
With images of Nazis after thinking about Jim Crow:
"... and while the lie spreads, they build their organizations" #StrangeVictory
Eerily current voiceovers from Leo Hurwitz's doc #StrangeVictory, 1948 📽️🗃️
"A fear runs through this country, a worrying...
We live like a man holding his breath against what may happen tomorrow....
We seem haunted in broad daylight and we seem sure of nothing except trouble”
Screenshot text: Strange Victory Strange Victory is the first significant anti-racist U.S. documentary film. With World War II over and Frontier Films dissolved, Leo Hurwitz and Barney Rosset (soon to form Grove Press) teamed up as Target Films to create this eloquent and powerful statement. It was to be their only collaboration. Amidst the high hopes of the post-World War II economic and baby boom, it represented a provocative questioning of the discrepancies between the ideals of the allied victory and the lingering aspects of fascism in U.S. society. In his trademark style, Hurwitz juxtaposes archival scenes of the war’s destruction with newly shot sequences, both actuality and reenacted. It asks the question, “Why are the ideas of loser still alive in the land of the winner?”
Taking a pre-office hours break to start streaming a doc: #StrangeVictory (1948, dir. Leo Hurwitz). #FilmSky 🗃️
My friend @lauriebaron.bsky.social recommended it to me as related to the conf paper I'm giving on Sunday, & shared the open-access link: leohurwitz.com/movie/strang.... Eager to watch!
Director #LeoHurwitz’s bombshell essay doc #StrangeVictory, out in a fresh Blu-ray transfer from #TheMilestoneCinematheque, addresses the dark evils of this country’s political soul. #GlennErickson considers it the most important film he's seen in 2018:
