Screening with EPFC Collective at Heavy Manners Library

WORKING TOGETHER SCREENING SERIES: I AM SOMEBODY + TO PICK A FLOWER

Thursday, August 28: 7:00 PM doors, 7:30 PM films

Working Together Film Series presents a double feature of shorts -  Madeline Anderson's "I Am Somebody" (1970) and Shireen Seno's "To Pick a Flower" (2021) - two films that righteously and intimately (re)cognize legacies of exploited labor. Speaking of her film Madeline Anderson says, "I knew that the obstacles that were before me were based on gender, race and politics...I tried to make a film that reflected my experience through their eyes." The film in question chronicled The Charleston Hospital Workers Movement, a movement by and for the black women who were the vast majority of underpaid, mistreated, and exploited nurse and hospital staff in Charleston, South Carolina. Notably, the film was commissioned by the Hospital Workers Union Local 1199 (Goddess Bless the Union). Shireen Seno's video essay "To Pick a Flower" chronicles a history before its own time through archival photographs taken from the period of American colonization of the Philippines between 1898 and 1946. Through personal reflections softly spoken and an archivists breadth of knowledge she weaves into understanding the fact that human integrity and freedom is linked directly and inextricably to that of our plant brethren; and that colonization in its total domination must (and has and does) exploit and extract from us as equally as our sister/mother/father/brother/friend/home the Earth. 

Heavy Manners Library is located at 1200 N. Alvarado St, LA 90026