CROSSBORDER MURAL PROJECT (Mexico-Chicago)/ 1998

The film documents the creation of two labor murals,  linked by the collaborative efforts of unions from both sides of the border. In 1997 Mike Alewitz painted a mural in the headquarters of the Frente Autentico del Trabajo (FAT) in Mexico City. Later in the year, Mexican muralist Daniel Manrique Arias and assistants painted a mural on an wall of the United Electrical Workers (UE) in Chicago.

BREAKING WALLS/ 2003 (45M)

An award-winning film by Jonathan Ben Efrat about an Alewitz mural project with Arab construction workers in the Occupied Territories.

LOOKING THROUGH THE WALL TRAILER/ 2003 (10m)

Footage from a yearlong project of a History Channel producer follows Alewitz to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Connecticut, Israel, Palestine, Nicaragua and other locations.

LOOKING THROUGH THE WALL/ 2003 #1

Footage from a yearlong project of a History Channel producer follows Alewitz to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Connecticut, Israel, Palestine, Nicaragua and other locations.

LOOKING THROUGH THE WALL/ 2003  #2

Footage from a yearlong project of a History Channel producer follows Alewitz to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Connecticut, Israel, Palestine, Nicaragua and other locations.

ALEWITZ AGITATIONAL SPEECH AT ANTIWAR DEMO (5M):

Hartford, CT, December 7, 2008

Why we need mass antiwar action and can’t rely on politicians.

CORNELL DANCE TO ALEWITZ MURAL/ 2015 (3m)

Short film documenting a dance performed for an Alewitz mural.

VIDEO CCSU MURAL SLAM (8m)

Short video about the first New Britain International Mural Slam.

MIKE ALEWITZ ON THINKING GREEN/ 2023

A recent rant about art under capitalism and establishing Red Square.

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TEAMSTER VICTORY MURAL/1997 (26m)

Video by Labor Beat about Teamster Power mural at Teamster City in Chicago.

MOTHER EARTH/ 1989 (90m)

Footage from the mural at Children’s Hospital, Managua.

LEWIS COUNTY HOPE AND STRUGGLE/ 2006 (90m)

Film by Anne Fischel about The Resurrection of Wesley Everest mural in Centralia WA.

CENTRAL AUTHORS/ 2002 (30m)

Censored by CCSU – on the publication of Insurgent Images.

WHOSE WALLS? OUR WALLS! LABOR’S STAKE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CENSORSHIP/ 2021 (50m)

Discussion of the censorship of The City at the Crossroads of History.

MIKE ALEWITZ AND HIS CENSORED MURALS/ 2015 (50m)

Green Party show about censored murals.

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VIDEOS AT CCSU MEDIA CENTER