[van-announce] Reminder! CounterCulture April 5

[Fiona Jeffries]

Wednesday April 5
SFU School of Communication CounterCulture presents

Racism, Revolts and the Intimate Architecture of Fortress Europe

La Raison du Plus Fort (Might is Right) - a documentary by Patric Jean

Produced two years before the French banlieux uprisings in the winter of 
2005, this documentary paints a devastating picture of the structures of 
exclusion underlying these widely mediatized events.

SFU Harbour Centre, (515 West Hastings St.)
7-9 pm, Room 1700

Description: Inexorably, the gap widens between the haves and the 
have-nots, a drama played out in Europe by the architectural divide between 
wealthy central neighbourhoods and the impoverished outer suburbs. The 
filmmaker travels from Belgium to Amiens, Lyon and Marseille in France, 
speaking with people living on the outskirts of big cities about their 
daily lives and the discrimination they experience. The film's visual 
language plays with the contrast between the drab isolation of the city 
limits and the bustle and colour of the central core. An uncompromising, 
militant look at the fabric of European cities today. (2003, 59 minutes)


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