"Une Ile et une nuit"-screening and talk about "ZAD Partout" @ L'Achoppe, Montreal 21.9

I am very honored that the collective of the Pirates de Lentillières has entrusted me with becoming some kind of ambassador of their unique film "Une Ile et une nuit" in North-America (usually they only show it with their personal presence). I will be showing the film - accompanied by a little input on the political pholosophy of "ZAD Partout" and it's political background in France - in Montreal, Ottawa and Kingston (and perhaps Chicago - tbc). I have written before how incredibly important I find this film. For me it is the best document I know that can transpose the somatic joy of rebellion and reclaiming territory behind ZADism that gives me so much political hope and horizon in these otherwise dark times. 

The Montreal-screening will be held at the Centre Social l'Achoppe and you can find more info about them on the Facebook page and post about the event. 

What does life feel like in zones liberated from ecocidal capitalism? Will its residents - moved together by war and climate change - develop a kind of relation with the land they live on that simply abandons the bureaucratic methods of the last "green capitalists"? Residents of the Quartier Libre des Lentillières in Dijon, one of the most famous occupied zones in France, have produced an auto-fictional cinematic firework in a self-managed and collective manner, which makes the desire for radical-ecological change sensually comprehensible. It gives a magnificent insight into current radical French activist scenes around the strategy of the ZAD and can serve as a generous starting point for a trans-Atlantic discussion on how liberatory strategies of reclaiming territory can look and feel like in a world tainted by settler-colonialism, fascism and other toxic forms of exclusion.

About the film: An Island and One Night (“Une Ile et une nuit”) is a fictional film made collectively over the past two years by the residents and users of the Quartier Libre des Lentillères, a self-organized area on the last remaining market garden land in the city of Dijon. These 8 hectares have been occupied and recultivated since 2010, in resistance to a concrete "ecocity" project that still threatens them today. In the middle of the city, these fallow spaces and abandoned houses have been transformed into a self-managed, multi-purpose district, where collective housing, market gardening, self-construction, festive and cultural events, etc. intermingle. It's a place of struggle and solidarity of all kinds, as well as a veritable reserve of biodiversity.
https://www.piratesdeslentilleres.net/en