IT'S :vote: TIME. The Queue grows short.
Voting open for the 4th, 11th, 18th, & 25th. Taking top voted nominates (depending on piracy success) for two movies each Friday. Maybe a third if it fits the theme or is really good/bad.
Pre-hosted nominations get extra weight becuase its less work. Dubs preferred over subs because Cytube is indignent about playing subtitle files without heavy cajoling. If it’s currently in theaters or on a streaming service its usually an pain in the ass to find a good torrent in time, but ill look for it anyways because fuck copyright.
Shout out to the Cytube crew, Posters of all shittiness, and to viewers like YOU.
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I've been trying to find a copy of the 2005 documentary "Sandmann - historien om en sosialistisk Supermann" (aka "Sandman - the story of a socialist superhero") since encountering this YouTube clip but for the life of me I cannot find a torrent or even a sketchy streaming site that has it.
It's almost certainly hidden behind this Vimeo link however I can't bypass the password and access the stream.
This makes me sad.
Damn, you're not kidding, i'm getting nothing from my usual searches. Looks like it was a made-for-tv documentary. Not available for sale or streaming anywhere as far as i can tell. We may have to contact the director/writer, cause im not sure its been republished since airing.
For what its worth, i may be able to get some of the scattered episodes of Das Sandmännchen the documentary is based on.
Heyyyyy, thanks for your reply because it lead me down a different rabbithole to make me confirm my suspicions.
This film production company is definitely releasing some of their films via Vimeo
That means there's the potential to contact them to request that they list the documentary in their on-demand section so I can purchase a screening and
never share it with anyone because that's illegal.Killer! If my "friend" happens to get their hands on it I'll pass along the message.
I'm new to Hexbear so excuse me if I am suggesting stuff that has already been viewed but there's a few interesting documentaries that I'd like to recommend:
(This one is old and it's a bit of a slow-burn documentary because it centres on the Tanzanian Nile Perch fishing industry and it tours the environmental, social, and ecological destruction caused by it in a really holistic way. It's like a snapshot of all the worst ways that capitalism and capitalist-adjacent societal structures exploit the masses through the lens of one species of fish. You have to be actively watching and making sense of the pieces that the documentary shows because it doesn't hand-feed the message to the audience but goddamn is it a perfect movie for radicalising the normies and the people who are left-ish but need the nudge to develop true class consciousness.)
(This documentary is on the Pruitt-Igoe project and it's a really good snapshot of social planning and social policy under capitalism. It gives a really good taste of intergenerational cycles of poverty, low educational outcomes, and intentional family breakdown driven by policy for African Americans.)
(Although I disagree with some of the content and especially some editorial decisions made in the documentary, e.g. framing the May Days events as being a response to the communist crackdown rather than the government, along with the communist faction, cracking down as a response to hostile actions and the illegal seizure of the Telefónica central exchange, it's an interesting look at the Spanish Civil War from the people who lived in it.)
Edit: Oh shit, I completely forgot about one of my favourite documentaries!
(Thanks to @Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net for reminding me!
This documentary centres itself on the development of Project Cybersyn, an attempt to create a planned market under socialism using cutting edge technology of the time, while it explores Salvador Allende's presidency, the attempts to subvert it, and the ultimate overthrow of Allende by Pinochet in a coup backed by the CIA. It's equal parts hopeful and heartwrenching. ¡Venceremos!)
Dont think we've covered any of these yet. As far as replays go, i used to worry, but its been going on for years now and I have stopped worrying and learned to love the rewatch.
It was definitely released and screened but only in a handful of film festivals, e.g. here and here in Europe, it seems.
I have a strong suspicion that they released this digitally and the film company, Medieoperatørene, uses their vimeo account to allow film festivals to screen the documentary from (hence why it's behind a password).
Believe me, I've scoured the internet and when you're pulling up random Russian telegram channel posts from 2019 you know that you're balls-deep into the dark reaches of the web lol.