The Dryden will screen Stachka (Strike, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Soviet Union 1925, 95 min., 35mm, Russian intertitles w/English subtitles) with the Alloy Orchestra performing musical accompaniment, as part of the Labor Film Series.

The workers of the world unite in this forceful, brilliantly constructed film of labor triumphant against brutal factory owners, government inspectors, and police spies. The official purpose of this government-sponsored project was to inform the masses, but Eisenstein believed that films should not merely impart information but sensation and impression as well. His debut feature is thus made up of images of collective action and a brilliant "montage of attractions": a cinematic perpetual motion machine, with each action or movement yielding its force to a subsequent one, all towards the utopian goal of worker solidarity and emancipation.

[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Oct-2]