The film, which premiered at the 67. Berlinale, is an aesthetic journey into the history of the so-called Yokinen Trial, organized by the Communist Party of the USA in Harlem in 1931 to put on trial inter-party racism as a barrier to comradeship. Laura Horelli's film unearths the history of the accused, a Finnish immigrant named August Jokinen, who became an outspoken civil rights advocate after the trial and eventually got deported from the United States for his political alliances.
The event is organized as part of the two-day international conference "Archaelogies of the Communist Avant-Gardes" hosted by the Chair of Art and Cultural History at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus University, in collaboration with the Department of Art History and Archeology at the University of Fribourg. The event is generously supported by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Thüringen.
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