New edit of film produced and directed by Yavapai Community College film school graduate ML Lincoln to be shown in Building M, Room 137 Tuesday night
The Yavapai Community College Film and Media Arts Program brings a showing of ML. Lincoln’s documentary movie, “Wrenched, to the Verde Valley Campus, on Tuesday, September 24 at Building M, Room 137. The show begins at 6:30 p.m. It is the new edit, with footage of environmental activist Tim DeChristopher.
The Community Colleges describes the moving as showing how Edward Abbey’s conservationist novels influenced the emerging environmental movement of the 1970s and ‘80s. Even today, Abbey’s books, particularly The Monkey Wrench Gang, inspire radical action groups in their fight to protect wilderness.
The movie is described in part on the movie’s own website as follows:
It “reveals how Edward Abbey’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and ‘80s. Through interviews, archival footage and re-enactments, ML Lincoln captures the outrage of Abbey’s friends who were the original eco-warriors. In defense of wilderness, these early activists pioneered ”monkeywrenching” – a radical blueprint for “wrenching the system.” Exemplified by EarthFirst! in the early ‘80s, direct action and civil disobedience grew in popularity. With tree-spiking, forest occupation and high-profile publicity stunts such as the cracking at Glen Canyon Dam, this group became the eventual target of FBI infiltrators, leading to the arrest of various members.”
The movie is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
As noted above, “Wrenched” was produced and directed by YC film school graduate ML Lincoln.
Sources: Yavapai Community College; “Wrenched” website.