The Last Days of Nonviolence
A Portrait of the American Reckoning Movement
filmed by Priča
(formatted by Lonnie Ray Atkinson)
In March of 2014, amidst unending governmental gridlock and unprecedented corruption, the American Reckoning Movement put forth one simple and reasonable demand of the United States Congress.
Anticipating the drama that would unfold, crew members from the documentary collective Priča flew from Slovenia to the U.S. to capture the spirit and experience of this movement, only to have their footage seized by officials with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in the airport prior to returning home. After a decade of petitions and court hearings, the most Priča has been able to retain are transcripts of the audio.
With no legal resolution in sight, the collective has decided to release the film in words, using those transcripts, along with crew notes, to construct for readers an experience not unsimilar to that of reading the subtitles to a foreign language film/series.
In concert with the filmmakers, and in gratitude to all those who took part in this definitive work, UnsafeCinema is honored to finally present to the world The Last Days of Nonviolence, a film that both exists and doesn’t.
Authors
Priča:
Priča – Documentary Collective of Slovenia are the same filmmakers that brought you He Doesn’t Know. Fearless in their commitment to bear such sensitive witness, the Collective refuses to be intimidated by any corporation, any government.
Lonnie Ray Atkinson:
In addition to assisting Priča and UnsafeCinema with the formatting and arrangement of The Last Days of Nonviolence, Lonnie Ray Atkinson is the author of A Good Kid and His Ghosts and Tough Guys, Bad Dudes, and Other Men My Father Knew.
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