Friday | April 5, 2002 9:00 pm

The Making of a Revolution

Directed by Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek.
Netherlands, 2001, video, color, 52 min.

Winner of the Amnesty International Award in Amsterdam in 2001, The Making of a Revolution employs a simple digital camera to follow OTPOR!, the Serbian student movement that began with only a dozen members and quickly grew to a people’s army of 50,000. OTPOR! (literally, "Resistance") took the lead in creating the nonviolent uprising that led to Slobodan Milosevic’s ultimate admission of electoral defeat and ouster in October 2000. With a diaristic voice-over narration, Rejger and van den Broek capture the strategies of the organization and argue for nonviolent actions as a model for global social change.

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Scenes of Resistance

Directed by Alejandra Navarro Smith.
Mexico, 2000, video, color, 24 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.

Away from the headlines, Zapatista villagers strive for self-sufficiency in a country whose government routinely ignores the rights and concerns of its indigenous population. In a series of meditations on daily life, this quietly powerful film conveys the ways the revolution is fought in the cornfields, the kitchens, and the school of a rebel village in Chiapas, Mexico.