The Brick & BrickFlix Present (in partnership with Left Voice and MeansTV):
Solidarity and Labor: Films of the Working Class Struggle
Featuring a performance of labor songs by Andy Boyd
at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave
March 31, 2025
Doors 7PM, Screenings 7:30PM
Running Time: 2 hours

Join us for another screening of BrickFlix! This month we’ve partnered with Left Voice and MeansTV, screening films centered around Labor and Solidarity. The evening will feature a performance of labor songs by Andy Boyd!

Evening of Films:

Marx ha vuelto (Cap. 1) (Contraimagen, TVPTS, IPS Karl Marx)
Rebelión Teamster (prod. Contraimagen)
Alt Auto (dir. Liz Cambron, Megan Hague, Ashley Walton)
Out of Office (dir. Will Roberts)

About the films from Left Voice:

Marx ha vuelto (Cap. 1)
‘Marx ha Vuelto’ or ‘Marx is Back” is a online miniseries that takes place in contemporary Argentina, suffering under the blows of economic crises. Workers of a printing house are facing suspensions and lay-offs; a group of workers are organizing to fight back as the union officials try to push them aside. We meet Martin, part of the workers’ group, who starts to read the Communist Manifesto and ends up meeting Karl Marx himself. Is he dreaming or is it reality?
Production: Contraimagen, TVPTS, IPS Karl Marx
Actors: Carlos Weber, Martín Scarfi, Laura Espínola, Hilda Frisari, Carlos Canosa, Mariano Smidt

Rebelión Teamster
An animated film about Minneapolis Truck Drivers in 1933, and their fight for unionization.
Production: Contraimagen
Animation: Hernán Aragon, Rodrigo Wilson
Collaboration: Violeta Bruk, Karina Provi
Voice: Claudio Cogo

About the Films from MeansTV:

Alt Auto
Did you know that only 1.6% of mechanics are female? Alt Auto explores an alternative labor space, Alternative Labor Auto Care in Columbus, OH.
Film by: Liz Cambron, Megan Hague, Ashley Walton

Out of Office
“You deserve to be in a Union!” and “You deserve to be in a Union!” It’s true! Everyone deserves to be in a union. Out of Office tells the story of scrappy and determined Wisconsin office workers and their 600+ day struggle to get a fair contract from their employer.
Directed, filmed, photographed, and edited by Will Roberts.

About the partners & artists:

Left Voice is a socialist multimedia publication and organization dedicated to fostering a sustained and strategic struggle against every form of capitalist exploitation and oppression. As part of an international network of socialist organizations and publications—available in eight different languages across fourteen countries—Left Voice provides an internationalist perspective on revolutionary politics and examines the movements of the U.S. working class within the larger framework of global revolution.

MeansTV is the world’s first worker-owned, anti-capitalist streaming service. Means TV has a library of films, documentaries, and shows with new programming added all the time, including a daily news show. All available to subscribers across desktop, mobile and smart TV devices like Roku, Fire and Apple TV. No advertisements or product placements. No corporate backers or VC cash ever. We’re entirely funded by people like you. Together, we’re building a long-standing, worker-owned media infrastructure that reflects and empowers the 99%.

Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. Her plays include Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist (The Tank Core Production), Occupy Prescott (Theater in Asylum at Jalopy Theatre, published by NoPassport Press), and The Trade Federation, or, Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels (IRT and Otherworld Theatre, published by NoPassport Press). She was the 2018 winner of the Columbia@Roundabout New Play Award for her play Os Confederados. She has been a member of Play Lab at Pipeline Theatre Company, Speakers’ Corner at Gingold Group, and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She is a member of the theatre band Friend of Friend, whose show Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone has been performed at University Settlement, The Brick, Joe’s Pub, and HERE Arts Center.

BrickFlix, a periodic screening & performance series was created by Filmmaker/Two Boots owner Phil Hartman in January 2020. It brings together independent filmmakers, live performance, and food to create a vibrant art loving community. It is currently programmed by Toney Brown.

Find them: @toneymovies @left_voice @means_tv @andyjboyd