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“With nonfiction films that deal with a political subject, form can often be a secondary concern. This is particularly true of films about activist movements, wherein the individual depicting the organization can become so embroiled in its particularities that the resulting film ends up a mere record, or worse, a recounting, a mass of information and little else. British artist Lucy Parker’s long in-the-making feature film about blacklisted construction workers in Britain, Solidarity—screening at London’s Open City Documentary Festival in September—is a welcome exception. Based upon fastidious research, it sees the artist deeply embedded within the movements she is engaging with, yet able to distance herself from them enough to see how they might best be rendered as cinema.”
Full article on Lucy Parker’s Solidarity in The Brooklyn Rail Sept 2019