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Workers of Leeds, unite! Join us for our next film screening and party as part of International Workers’ Week.

 We’ve got it all this time: films, a chat with the filmmaker, and a reggaeton DJ set.

We’re screening two short films by Libertad Gills — 1922 (2023) and Por un Cine Cachinero (2024) — including an introduction and Q&A with the filmmaker.  Using pre-existing footage, Gills invites us to reflect on cinema today — in Ecuador and beyond.
Scroll on for the synopses

The night keeps going with Mami Chula’s reggaeton DJ set.

When & Where:
Tuesday, May 6 — from 6:30 PM onwards at HPBC

1922 (2023):
What do you do when there’s no film archive of a major historical event?
1922 looks at Ecuador’s workers’ strike and massacre on November 15, 1922 — for which no known  archival moving images exist.
By reworking another film from that year (Fiestas del Centenario) and mixing in international footage, Libertad Gills builds an imagined archive, exploring what cinema was in 1922 — and how it might serve class struggle today.

Por un Cine Cachinero (2024):
A video essay based on the 2023 manifesto by Guayaquil Analógico, published in Guayaquil en ruinas: Cartografía fílmica de una ciudad.
The film calls for a "Cine Cachinero" — a cinema of reuse and reappropriation, built from discarded materials.