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Very Gentle Work

Nate Lavey
USA
23’ 55"

Through a fictional protagonist’s psychogeographic research into militant revenge and Jewish tradition, Very Gentle Work connects Sholem Schwarzbard, the Black Liberation Army, FALN and Weather Underground to the ongoing struggle against a proposed police training center near Atlanta, Georgia.

New York: the most fetishized site of American cinema, the setting for countless founding myths of cinema and modernity. In Very Gentle Work, filmmaker Nate Lavey explores a seldom-told facet of the city that never sleeps: its history as a key site of the American anarchist movement. Amidst the hyper-familiar landscapes at the heart of global capitalism, protagonist Morris emerges as a figure hiding an uncanny history of his own – a kindly elderly man who, it turns out, idolizes various figures who committed politically motivated terrorist attacks. Thus, the city becomes the site of a major political archaeological excavation, its glass columns taking the form of a facade that conceals the history of a failed partisan opposition. (Flavia Dima)

Screening date and location

September 26th, 6:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Nate Lavey

Nate Lavey is an experimental filmmaker and photographer with a background in documentary and video journalism. He has a longstanding interest in political militancy, landscape and the avant-garde.



  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Directed, Edited And Written By: Nate Lavey
  • Voiceover By : James Loop
  • Script Editing By: Claire Devoogd
  • Sound Design And Mixing By: Dean White
  • Color Correction By: Fumiro Sato
  • Music By: Gershon Sirota, Julie Harting, Guilhermina Suggia, Kimiko Ishizaka
  • Produced de: Nate Lavey
  • Additional Production: Claire Devoogd

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Very Gentle Work

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