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# Anarchism on Film, From the Paris Commune to Emma Goldman
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/anarchism-on-film-anthology-film-archives/
- Published: 2021-02-02T17:21:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:42:27.000Z
- Description: Anthology Film Archives delves into the oft-misunderstood political philosophy in a new online screening series.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Anthology Film Archives, Documentary, Featured, New York, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

This past fall, Richard Porton's celebrated text [*Film and the Anarchist Imagination*](https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/76yht6aq9780252043338.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) was re-released in a new and expanded edition. To celebrate, Anthology Film Archives has collaborated with Porton for *Anarchism on Film*, a streaming repertory program of movies about the oft-misunderstood political philosophy.

Titles include [*La Commune (Paris, 1871)*](https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lacommune?ref=hyperallergic.com), Peter Watkins's epic 1999 documentary-style look at the [Paris Commune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%5FCommune?ref=hyperallergic.com), and Abigail Childs's essay film [*Acts & Intermissions: Emma Goldman in America*](https://vimeo.com/ondemand/actsintermissions?ref=hyperallergic.com) (2017), about the [indomitable activist and writer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%5FGoldman?ref=hyperallergic.com). There are several documentaries about worker resistance and coalition-building in the former Yugoslavia: *Bastards of Utopia* (2010)*, The Maribor Uprisings* (2017)*,* and *The Old School of Capitalism* (2009). And it wouldn't be a leftist film series without Ken Loach, whose 1995 Spanish Civil War-set *Land and Freedom* is present as well.

*La Commune (Paris, 1871)* can be purchased to stream for $10\. *Acts & Intermissions: Emma Goldman in America* costs $6\. The rest of the films in the program can be streamed for free.

When: February 3-16  
Where: Online

*More info via the* [*Anthology Film Archives website*](http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film%5Fscreenings/series/53263?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*