Prolekult
2021History is Marching
Prolekult
James Bell
History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major powers across the globe over the course of 2018. The film follows western history from 1945 to the present day, before looking at how capitalist society is today breaking down into the largest crisis in its history. Socialism or extinction?
History is Marching
A Dying Culture
Prolekult
James Bell
A Dying Culture: The End of Postmodernity is a feature-length Marxist documentary looking at culture, art, postmodernism, video games, data, social media, the state and war in context of the largest crisis in capitalism's history.
A Dying Culture
Collapse
Prolekult
James Bell
Collapse is a short documentary examining the crisis shocked into motion by the COVID-19 pandemic as the final breakdown of capitalist society. The film looks at a number of topics, including great power competition, the lockdown, the collapse of social dependence, unemployment and automation to present an understanding of our historical moment as, simply, "the beginning of an end". This film is the first of three planned on the present crisis. The next will look at the murder of George Floyd and the processes it has set in motion
Collapse
¡Socialismo o muerte! (in defence of Cuban socialism)
Prolekult
James Bell
"¡Socialismo o muerte! (in defence of Cuban socialism)" is a short documentary looking at the latest imperialist assault on the Cuban revolution following protests against shortages across the island in mid-July. The film offers a defence of Cuban socialism, looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US blockade on the nation's economy, as well as the broader strategy being deployed against Cuba socialism by the Biden administation.
¡Socialismo o muerte! (in defence of Cuban socialism)
We Demand Tomorrow
Prolekult
James Bell
We Demand Tomorrow is a Marxist documentary looking at the material basis of communism in context of the extinction crises today faced by our species. The film explores the Marxist view of historical development and the historically limited nature of capitalist society both theoretically and concretely through a critique of the economic and environmental crises faced by our species. It then goes on to demonstrate that Marxist communism is a material necessity for our species' survival, presenting the solutions to extinction in outline.
We Demand Tomorrow
American Carnage
Prolekult
James Bell
American Carnage is a short documentary looking at the renewal of the Black Lives Matter movement in particularly the United States following the murder of George Floyd on 25 May, 2020. It briefly discuss the background of this murder and the nature of the oppression brought by the US state against its black population, fascism and the Donald Trump Presidency, and the role of the liberal bourgeoisie in attempting to drive the movement into a dead end.
American Carnage
Everything Under Heaven
Prolekult
James Bell
Everything Under Heaven is a short documentary looking at the continued proliferation of antagonisms between global powers, the threat of global - even nuclear - war, and the crisis of imperialist capitalism. Building upon the analysis put forward in our 2018 documentary, History is Marching, and our 2019 short film, An Atlantic Tide, it covers the US-China trade war, the "phase one" US-China deal, Hong Kong, the politicisation of the coronavirus, conflicts between the EU imperialist bloc and the US, Brexit, the resurgence of a Turkish colonialism, the US dollar and oil, and the US' push toward drastic escalation in the Middle-East. They are in free fall. We are the solution.
Everything Under Heaven
Bolivar Cuts the Sky
Prolekult
James Bell
Bolívar Cuts the Sky is a short documentary (45 mins) looking at the coup attempt launched on 23 January by US imperialism and Juan Guaidó against the Maduro government in Venezuela. It covers at the history of Latin America between the 19th and 20th Centuries, and the history of the Bolivarian revolution to contextualise the assault that it presently finds itself under.
Bolivar Cuts the Sky
Dechoukaj: Haiti's long rebellion
Prolekult
James Bell
"Dechoukaj (uprooting): Haiti's long rebellion" is a short documentary looking at Haiti's long history of resistance to colonial and imperialist domination. The film gives a concise overview of Haiti's history - from its revolution in 1791-1804, through the 1915 US occupation and through countless dictators - to situate the mass resistance today in motion across the nation.
Dechoukaj: Haiti's long rebellion
Camps of Dependence
Prolekult
James Bell
Camps of Dependence is a short documentary looking at the COVID-19 pandemic as an instrument of eugenics against disabled people in Britain. The film looks at the political economy of disability, the nature of dependence as a relation of repression, disabled people's resistance, eugenics as an ideology and the nature of the process of barbarism today underway in the British care sector.
Camps of Dependence
The Soul of America
Prolekult
James Bell
The Soul of America is a short documentary providing a class analysis of the last days of Trump's Presidency, the "storming" of the US Capitol building, the Biden Presidency and the next phase of US imperialism's decline.
The Soul of America