July 13, 2024
by Professor Zebra
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REMEMBERING SAM MASTERS Sam Masters died fighting in the battle of Brunete in July 1937. Sam wrote to his mother, “Frankly, I’ve never felt in my life such love of comrades as here. These boys are the finest, the grandest that … Continue reading
June 14, 2024
by Shapes
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A bus stop. Stoke Newington. August 1936. A woman is waiting. She is heavy set, wearing a light summer coat over a white silk blouse with strands of hair awry in the wind. She is, maybe, fifty years old. A … Continue reading
June 11, 2024
by Shapes
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Sam Lesser the IBMT days – a short film I made for the launch of Sam’s book ‘I Saw Democracy Murdered’ and shown at the book launch at Marx Memorial Library in 2022. I interviewed Sam in 2008 and was lucky enough … Continue reading
May 24, 2024
by Shapes
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by Marshall Mateer REFLECTIONS ON THE EXHIBITION ‘ART REVOLUTIONARIES – HOMAGE TO THE PAVILION OF THE SPANISH REPUBLIC, 1937’. THE MAYORAL GALLERY, BARCELONA – held in a temporary gallery in LONDON, winter 2017. In 1937 volunteers on their way to … Continue reading
May 20, 2024
by Shapes
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In 1929/30 the great Spanish poet Fedrico Garcia Lorca was a student in New York – a mind-changing visit he recorded in ‘Poet in New York’. He was stunned by the modern, urban whirpool of the metropolis and its myriad peoples, the solitude … Continue reading
May 17, 2024
by Shapes
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The Stone Bomb monument was erected in 1935 as a protest against the bombing of the Abyssinian people by Mussolini’s invading Italian forces. It is in Woodford Green a suburb of North East London. The Stone Bomb sculpture was commissioned by … Continue reading
November 22, 2016
by Professor Zebra
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My project work is carried out over years. The five projects below are all well underway – nearing completion! (May 2024) The Brigaders Return! A film project developing an annotated version of newsreel film from the BFI archives made in … Continue reading
June 6, 2012
by Professor Zebra
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In 2012 a group of us followed the footsteps of the Brigaders over the Pyrenees into Spain. I filmed the five day trip – slipping and sliding on mud and rocks and holding an umbrella over the camera when it teemed … Continue reading
May 22, 2012
by Professor Zebra
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REMEMBERING SAM MASTERS and HARRY GROSS Sam Masters died fighting in the battle of Brunete in July 1937. Sam wrote to his mother, “Frankly, I’ve never felt in my life such love of comrades as here. These boys are the finest, … Continue reading
May 22, 2012
by Professor Zebra
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… an eclectic mix … a carnival amplifying and inspiring. Originally a rattle made of a bag tied to a stick in which pebbles and other bits could be shaken as a [bird] scarer; described as “a blare, a bloody … Continue reading