For Life, Against the War

Release Year
1967
Runtime
2h 30m
Directed By
Peter Elison
Ron Finne
Lee Savage
John H. Hawkins
Lionel Martinez
USCO
Peter Gessner
Hilary Harris
Leo Hurwitz
Peggy Lawson
Tom Hurwitz
Lewis Jacobs
Stan VanDerBeek
Robert Fiore
Lawrence Jordan
Don Duga
Barbara Fultz
Stan Brakhage
Rudy Burckhardt
Nina Feinberg
Shirley Clarke
Betty Ferguson
Maurice Amor
Robert Breer
Max Phillips
Jerry Wakefield
Tom Bissenger
Ken Jacobs
Norman Weissburg
Mark Sadan
Fred Wellington
Allen Siegal
Allen Schaff
John Wallenmeyer
Henry J. Korn
Jonas Mekas
George Breidenbach
Abbe Borov
A.M. Jimmenez
Michael Snow
Joyce Wieland
Stephen Sellinger
Victor Grauer
Charles I. Levine
Bob Kinney
Dave Lambet
Karl Bissenger
Nat Hoffman
Storm De Hirsch
Manfred Kirchheimer
Lloyd Michael Williams
Abbott Meader
Ben Van Meter
Preston
For Life, Against the War

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.

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