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Reading Aloud: What Is Power? by Fred Dewey

A film of the essay "What Is Power?" by Fred Dewey (2023, 38-minutes, 4K digital video, color, sound)

Produced by the Fred Rogers Dewey Legacy Project (Jeremiah Day, Renée Peteropoulos, Lucas Reiner, Brooks Roddan, Sue Spaid)

Fred Dewey (1957-2021) was a democracy activist, writer, organizer, teacher, book editor, publisher, and designer. He organized public “table readings” around the world of Hannah Arendt’s writings on democracy and authoritarianism. Dewey wanted readers to realize their capacity for a different kind of politics, one in which people claim their own power. This project employs one of Dewey’s most penetrating texts and his belief in the transformative experience of people reading out loud to each other. It aims to capture those transformations on film.

With Will Alexander, Stephanie Bell, Dennis Cooper, Sandra Cruze, Dorit Cypis, Alexandra Epps, Laura Flanders, Simone Forti, Todd Gray, Dakota Higgins, Hedi El Kholti, Peter Kalisch, Chris Kraus, Suzanne Lacy, John Malpede, Eileen Myles, Russell Marling,  Meena Nanji, Jeffrey Owens, Renée Petropoulos, Pilar Petropoulos-White, Linda Pollack, Rachel Grace Potts, Pamela Ramos, Manuel Ramos Ruiz, Trinidad Ruiz, Guy Santiago, Catherine Scott, Kyungmi Shin, Jack Skelley, A.K. Toney, Shirley Tse, Jody Zellen.   

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