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He received his Master’s Degree in Social Documentation from the University of California Santa Cruz, and his Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media, also from UC Santa Cruz. His research and creative work examines the politics and aesthetics of documentary and new media practices, with an emphasis on histories of race, class, and gender. His scholarship has been published in a number of academic and art forums, including Docalogue, The Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and INCITE Journal of Experimental Media. His films and GIF cycles, including Way Down in the Hole (2011), NOW! AGAIN! (2014), Ra*ist President (2016) and Evidence of the Evidence (2017), have screened at a wide variety of venues, including the Berlinale, IndieLisboa, Walker Art Center, San Francisco’s Other Cinema, and the Miners' Colfax Medical Center, a convalescent home for retired hard rock and coal miners in Raton, New Mexico. Alex is also the managing editor of the radical online media journal NOW! A Journal of Urgent Praxis. (NOW-Journal.com) He teaches filmmaking at Seattle University, where he is Assistant Professor of Film. http://www.aljiers.net/pagecv daily 0.75 2021-09-10 http://www.aljiers.net/films daily 0.75 2022-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1534269868012-ZD12QMGAZ3I5BL4YZYDU/NOWAGAIN_STILL_2d.png films - NOW! AGAIN! VIDEO, 2014, COLOR AND B&W, SOUND, 5 MINUTES Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson on NOW! AGAIN!: "NOW! AGAIN! is a reenactment of a classic radical film, "Now!" by Santiago Alvarez, staged this summer in Ferguson, Missouri by the cops themselves. Playing themselves, the cops reenact their own vicious history as if they were checking their performance in a mirror shattered by gunfire. NOW! AGAIN! blows up at the intersection of an avant-garde film act and an urgent manifesto for militant action, demanding an end to police violence NOW!" SELECTED SCREENINGS New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Saint Louis International Film Festival, Saint Louis, Missouri Cachoeira Doc Fest, Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil Show Me Justice Film Festival, Warrensburg, Missouri Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, Texas Other Cinema, San Francisco, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1535745018772-GKGJZSLNU0RG755KZYG4/Picture+4.png films - LEARNING TO BEND STEEL VIDEO, 2009, COLOR AND B&W, SOUND, 10 MINUTES An intimate portrait of legendary labor historian/activist and folklorist Archie Green, Learning to Bend Steel focuses on Green's early days as an aspiring shipwright on the dry docks of 1940's San Francisco. It is a meditation on the nature of labor, a chronicle of Green's early embrace of worker's culture, and a precious glimpse of San Francisco as a working class city, before its cultural annihilation at the hands of Silicon Valley tech oligarchs. SELECTED SCREENINGS Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia On the Clock: A Playful Guide to Working Life, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California San Francisco Labor Fest, San Francisco, CA Labor and Working Class History Association National Conference, Chicago, Illinois Reel Works Labor Film Festival, Santa Cruz, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1631304342371-4DT39BD6L52AQSSD6W94/WeCannotLove_1.png films - WE CANNOT LOVE WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW (COLLABORATION WITH KELLY SEARS) VIDEO, 2021, COLOR, SOUND, 4 MINUTES Co-directed with the experimental animator Kelly Sears, We Cannot Love What We Do Not Know interrogates the Trump Administration's reactionary1776 Project, laying bare its cynical, divisive, and factually incorrect take on American history. Combining frantic and repetitive animations–of reinforcement, bunkering, and isolation–made from home improvement texts, with excerpts from the audiobook reading of the 1776 commission report, the film takes viewers on a chilling and phantasmagoric journey into the paranoid soulless soul of right wing historical propaganda. SELECTED SCREENINGS Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, Ohio Prismatic Ground, New York City, New York Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1534269598752-MQ8L4D94Q9ZDHTJ2GAN2/EotE_Film_Still_2+copy.jpg films - EVIDENCE OF THE EVIDENCE VIDEO, 2018, COLOR AND B&W, SOUND, 21 MINUTES The 1971 Attica prison uprising is a signature moment of radical resistance for the American Civil Rights movement. The bloody retaking of the prison however, is an open wound. Utilizing rarely seen video recordings, Evidence of the Evidence explores this tortured history. It offers a visceral account of the events at Attica, and chronicles the mediation and narrativization of these events. In so doing, it reflects on the role that moving images play in the production of history and memory, its creation and its destruction. SELECTED SCREENINGS Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany London Short Film Festival, London, UK (Jury Award: Best Documentary) Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado (Finalist: Best Short Documentary) Camden International Film Festival, Camden, Maine Indie Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, Washington Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbodale, IL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1534270231792-BIK69CXQVSUEWZDX0KVC/ACL_Screen.png films - A COSTLY LESSON VIDEO, 2016, COLOR, SOUND, 10 MINUTES "A Costly Lesson is a strange, mournful bird: an artifact of a forgotten past that arrives on the schedule of this week’s newsreel. More of less, it constitutes the scant findings of Johnston’s investigations into the 1913 suffocation of 8 black convicts in a Texas prison. Yet rather than reading as a document of a past time, it reads like a transcript of our nightmare present: black teenagers in prison, abusive work conditions, racist cops, a murderous response to resistance, 8 dead teenagers . . . and nobody does anything about it. Johnston does what he can. He honors them with dignity, beauty, restraint. He answers the questions he can answer: who, where, when, how. The only missing interrogative is why. But he answers that too, almost automatically, by answering the preceding questions themselves. One of the true horrors of racism in the United States is that it obliterates questions of why as part of its existential firestorm. Simply say that a victim of violence in the United States is young, black, and poor, and we already know how the story will end. It’s a lesson we learn over and over. It’s a lesson we never seem to learn." SELECTED SCREENINGS Interference Archive, Brooklyn, New York Other Cinema, San Francisco, California YES - Ypsi Experimental Space, Ypsilanti, Michigan NOW! A Journal of Urgent Praxis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1535744041054-FB450B8JK2DLZQVP01SM/Filbert.jpg films - WAY DOWN IN THE HOLE VIDEO, 2010, COLOR AND B&W, SOUND, 40 MINUTES The ghosts of America’s radical past make themselves known in Way down in the Hole. Enlisting contemporary interviews, archival materials and a propulsive musical score, this short documentary journeys to the heart of one of the most violent episodes in American labor history, the Great Colorado Coalfield War of 1913-1914. Indebted as much to Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County USA as to the gritty revisionist westerns of Sam Peckinpah, the film is a meditation on class struggle, national identity, and violent insurrection, played out across the wild frontier of the industrial American west. SELECTED SCREENINGS Bread and Roses Workers Cultural Center, Denver, Colorado Miners Colfax Medical Center, Raton, New Mexico San Francisco Labor Fest, San Francisco, CA University of Colorado, Denver, CO Not Fiction! A Screening of Experimental Documentaries, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado “Documented Italians” Film and Video Series, Queens College, CUNY, Manhattan, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1631304257689-58T0QALKDEIOFTZC1PQ5/DCHF_Still_1.png films - DARK CELL HARLEM FARM VIDEO, 2022, COLOR, SOUND, 26 MINUTES Set against the backdrop of the long and brutal history of the Texas prison system–from Juneteenth to Covid–Dark Cell Harlem Farm explores the death by suffocation of eight Black men at a prison plantation in 1913. Combining readings of primary source materials and personal reflections by formerly incarcerated individuals, footage of the prison landscapes where the incident took place, a series of graphical interventions and excavations, and a haunting original score by composer (and Texas native) Zachary James Watkins, the film makes an urgent and uncompromising argument for the impossibility of prison reform and the necessity of prison abolition. SELECTED SCREENINGS Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado Worker’s Unite Film Festival, New York, New York Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival, Tolpuddle, UK (Jury Award: Best Documentary) Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem, NY International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), Bologna, Italy Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma, Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5399f5b3e4b06cc1bc921d6b/1534203134681-KYD2EGY8IRGL4ETF0IZP/2016-02-13+22.16.29+copy.jpg films