Open Film Film School - Filmmaking Mohawks - Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance From the playlist : Manifesto for Interventionist Media - because Art is a Hammer Manifesto Point # 1: The original project idea and goals come from the community partner. Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance is arguably Alanis Obomsawin's most important film, documenting the military 1990 siege of a Mohawk reserve near Oka, Quebec, and its causes. I chose this film here because the celebrated Abenaki filmmaker told me recently: "For me a real documentary is when you are really listening to somebody. They are the ones that tell you what the story is. — Katerina Cizek IAWTV Awards YouTube Trends Independent Lens . AT HOME IN UTOPIA . The Film “This was all an experiment. The people that started the experiment thought, ‘We’ll end up with heaven on earth.’” —Paul “Pete” Rosenblum In the mid-1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish garment workers catapulted themselves out of the urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx. AT HOME IN UTOPIA captures their epic struggle across two generations as the Coops residents experiment with breaking down barriers of race and ethnicity, and championing radical ideas that would someday transform the American workplace. Three other large communities—the Amalgamated Houses, built by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, the Sholem Aleichem Houses, built by Yiddishists, and the Farband Houses, built by Labor ZIonists —were located near the Coops. But after World War II, amidst growing anti-communist sentiment and McCarthyism, their utopian dreams began to unravel. Share your thoughts on the film in Talkback >>