6/1: Screening of "Let the Fire Burn" for Monday Mayhem programming at the Flying Squirrel
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Screening of "Let the Fire Burn"
part of our Monday Mayhem programming
Monday, June 1, 2015
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
Free and open to the public, donations welcome!
The Flying Squirrel Community Space is going to show "Let the Fire Burn," a documentary about the 1985 aerial bombing of the Black Liberation group MOVE by the Philadelphia police department.
The documentary screening is apart of the Monday Mayhem programming at the Flying Squirrel Community Space.
What is Monday Mayhem? On the first Monday of every month, the Flying Squirrel hosts special programming that forgoes the technical and logistical concerns of running an open-use community space in order to take a closer look at the impact of our actions on the community and our potential as a catalyst for change.
About the film:
In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated—and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “...let the fire burn.” Using only archival news coverage and interviews, first-time filmmaker Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous and largely forgotten clashes between government and citizens in modern American history.
Film website: http://
Co-sponsored by BLACK, Enough is Enough- Rochester, NY, and Rochester Indymedia.
