For Life, Against the War

Overview

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.

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

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