For Life, Against the War
DirectorsRichard Preston, Peter Elison, Ron Finne, Lee Savage, John H. Hawkins, Lionel Martinez, USCO, Peter Gessner, Hilary Harris, Leo Hurwitz, Peggy Lawson, Tom Hurwitz, Lewis Jacobs, Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Fiore, Lawrence Jordan, Don Duga, Barbara Fultz, Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt, Nina Feinberg, Shirley Clarke, Betty Ferguson, Maurice Amor, Robert Breer, Max Phillips, Jerry Wakefield, Tom Bissenger, Ken Jacobs, Norman Weissburg, Mark Sadan, Fred Wellington, Allen Siegal, Allen Schaff, John Wallenmeyer, Henry J. Korn, Jonas Mekas, George Breidenbach, Abbe Borov, A.M. Jimmenez, Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Stephen Sellinger, Victor Grauer, Charles I. Levine, Bob Kinney, Dave Lambet, Karl Bissenger, Nat Hoffman, Storm De Hirsch, 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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