For Life, Against the War
DirectorsRichard Preston, Lee Savage, Lewis Jacobs, Peggy Lawson, Ron Finne, Lawrence Jordan, Lionel Martinez, USCO, Hilary Harris, Peter Elison, Leo Hurwitz, John H. Hawkins, Tom Hurwitz, Stan VanDerBeek, Peter Gessner, Robert Fiore, Don Duga, Barbara Fultz, Max Phillips, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Nat Hoffman, Storm De Hirsch, Rudy Burckhardt, Betty Ferguson, Stephen Sellinger, Nina Feinberg, Tom Bissenger, Allen Schaff, Karl Bissenger, Stan Brakhage, Jerry Wakefield, Abbe Borov, Dave Lambet, Norman Weissburg, Mark Sadan, John Wallenmeyer, A.M. Jimmenez, Victor Grauer, Charles I. Levine, Shirley Clarke, Allen Siegal, Robert Breer, Joyce Wieland, Maurice Amor, Fred Wellington, Bob Kinney, Henry J. Korn, George Breidenbach, Michael Snow, Manfred Kirchheimer, Lloyd Michael Williams, Abbott Meader, Ben Van Meter
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of the Angry Arts, the epic compilation film incorporated minute-long segments which were sent from many corners of the country, spliced together and projected. The original presentation of the works was more of an open forum with no curation or selection, and in 2000 Anthology Film Archives preserved a print featuring around 40 films from over 60 submissions.
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