Mayday Short Film Night

On Thursday 1st May to celebrate May Day, as part of the Radical Film Network’s Workers Rights screenings at multiple locations, will be screening a number of short films selected from a list compiled by the RFN.

We’d encourage everyone to get along to see what is on offer. The selected films represent a wide range of countries, styles, and approaches to the theme of workers’ rights.  This series of short films and one trailer are as follows:

Manifestoon (1995), Jesse Drew, USA: an experimental cartoon version of the Communist Manifesto.

Le casa che eravamo, The houses we were (2018), Arianna Lodesetero, Italy: An archival, polyphonic and entangled demonstration into a charitable low-income housing institute.

Republic, (2023), Rosie Reed Hillman, UK: as the washing machine whirs, three women care for their young children repeating actions they carry out each day. An immersive and acutely observed insight into the ’private’ sphere and women’s everyday labour. 

#Precarity Story, 2020, Lorena Cervera, UK/Spain: tells the story of Isabel, a cleaner, hourly-paid teacher and researcher at the same British university. Filmed during the 2018-2020 UK higher education strikes, this documentary exposes the reality of the academic precariat.

Studs Terkel Remembers: the Haymarket Affair (2000), John de Graaf, Mirko Popadic, and Alan Harris Stein, USA: Portions of this video were shot for Rocking the Boat, a documentary on the labour movement. Honouring the 139th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, an important moment in labour history and the origin event to May Day.

£10 entry - £5 concession.