This astounding testimony to ‘the power of the people’ was given to the Memory Grid Community Collection as part of the SKA TV video compile ‘Global Insights 4’, a collection of shorts from around the world with a focus on grass-roots peoples’ action. Chiapas Army Base (Mexico) was filmed by Big Noise Tactical (USA) a not-for-profit, all-volunteer collective of media-makers around the world, ‘dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.’
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1006149
Audience classification
ACMI classified
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communities
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Protest movements
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode