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For Life, Against the War (1967)
Directed by Robert Fiore, Leo Hurwitz, Tom Hurwitz, Shirley Clarke, Larry Jordan, Lee Savage, Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Peggy Lawson, Manfred Kirchheimer, Peter Gessner, Jonas Mekas, Robert Breer, Storm De Hirsch, Stan Vanderbeek, Rudy Burckhardt, John H. Hawkins, Lloyd Michael Williams, Nina Feinberg, Hilary Harris, Fred Wellington, Lewis Jacobs, Betty Ferguson, Charles I. Levine, George Breidenbach, Peter Elison, Ron Finne, Lionel Martinez, USCO, Don Duga, Barbara Fultz, Maurice Amor, Max Phillips, Jerry Wakefield, Tom Bissenger, Norman Weissburg, Mark Sadan, Allen Siegal, Allen Schaff, John Wallenmeyer, Henry J. Korn, Abbe Borov, A.M. Jimmenez, Stephen Sellinger, Victor Grauer, Bob Kinney, Dave Lambet, Karl Bissenger, Nat Hoffman, Abbott Meader, Ben Van Meter, Preston
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.
Length 150 minutes