NO FILM ON A DEAD PLANET, AGAIN
October 6, 2024
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EXTINCTION REBELLION DISRUPTS NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL “THE SHROUDS” SCREENING TO WARN: “NO FILM ON A DEAD PLANET”
New York, NY - In a disruption far less severe than that of any extreme weather event, members of Extinction Rebellion NYC interrupted the Sunday afternoon screening of “The Shrouds.” This disruption is the second in a series, serving to warn that there is “no film on a dead planet”. The rebels sought to highlight the increasing difficulty of creating and distributing movies as climate disasters become increasingly common, dangerous, and hard to predict.
In the film, Vincent Cassel plays a man who watches the dead bodies of his loved ones decay; an oddly apt metaphor for climate inaction in the face of deadly disasters. Inaction on climate is placing us in a similar situation – we are actively living this witnessing of death.
Please see our tweet here for further information, and to yesterday’s action for more context.
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QUOTES
“We are seeing increasing amounts of unexpected climate catastrophe all around us. This disruption was nothing compared to what nature will deliver if we don’t act now,” said Miles Grant, an Extinction Rebellion spokesperson.
“When my kids have kids, I want them to come to the NYFF too, but there will be no film on a dead planet! There are no climate havens, and that includes Alice Tully Hall,” warned Lydia W, one of the disrupters.
“We are not protesting the film festival – New York is a hub of money and power, and we need to remember that we can be part of a mass movement that saves lives, whether in Nigeria, Asheville, Bosnia, or Queens,“ said Jeff M, one of the disrupters.
“We’re in the midst of the climate emergency that scientists have warned us about for decades. We can no longer live as we have lived and consume as we have consumed. Disrupting this event is in fact a rational response, given the crisis we all face,” said John Mark Rozendaal, one of the disrupters.
About Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action on the climate and nature emergency.
Extinction Rebellion exists because the conventional approaches: voting, writing to politicians and signing petitions, have failed. Powerful political and economic interests prevent change, as does our outdated political system itself. Our strategy is therefore one of nonviolent, disruptive civil disobedience – in short, a strategy of rebellion.
Climate boiling is here and now. It’s happening all around us, hitting some harder than others. Extinction Rebellion demands that all of us, especially major institutions and governments, tell the truth about the ongoing Sixth Mass Extinction. Extinction Rebellion believes that, faced with the government’s criminal inaction, it is a citizen’s duty to rebel, through peaceful civil disobedience .
Internationally, Extinction Rebellion has been demanding that those with power act now to halt the worst outcomes of the climate catastrophe currently unfolding. Unlike other climate advocacy groups, Extinction Rebellion understands that we must go beyond politics and establish Citizens’ Assemblies where ordinary citizens can meet in a depoliticized setting to discuss, learn from experts, and make policy recommendations. Only in this way can we achieve the fair and just transition we so desperately need.
Leading by example, Extinction Rebellion is fighting for a more stable, sustainable world.