Personal Archives, Political Memories: The Radical Past in Contemporary Documentary: Block Museum - Northwestern University
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Personal Archives, Political Memories: The Radical Past in Contemporary Documentary

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Film Series

As activists around the world revisit the successes and failures of earlier political movements, a new wave of documentaries and essay films have begun to look beyond official archives, recovering lost, forgotten, and unseen images to tell stories of struggle. Whether incorporating family photos, home movies, or decades-old documents of protest, the films in this series explore turbulent histories through a distinctly personal lens.