What Would it Mean to Win?
“What Would It Mean To Win?” is a film based on the counter-globalisation protests in Heiligendamm (June 2007). It is structured around three central questions: Who are we? What is our power? What would it mean to win? and combines documentary footage shot during the blockades against the G8 summit in Germany, interviews and animation sequences.
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|---|---|
| Produced by | Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler |
| Directed by | Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler |
| Home page | more info |
| Produced | Jul 28, 2009 |
Full Description
“What Would It Mean To Win?” is a film based on the
counter-globalisation protests in Heiligendamm (June 2007). It is
structured around three central questions: Who are we? What is our
power? What would it mean to win? and combines documentary
footage shot during the blockades against the G8 summit in
Germany, interviews and animation sequences.
Recently the counter-globalisation movement has gone through a certain
malaise accentuated by the shifts in global politics in the post 9/11
context. “What Would It Mean To Win?”, as the title implies, addresses this
central question for the movement. During the Seattle demonstrations “we
are winning” was a popular graffiti slogan that captured the sense of
euphoria that came with the birth of a new movement. Since that time
however this slogan has been regarded in a much more speculative manner.
This film aims to move beyond the question of whether we are “winning”
or not by addressing what would it actually mean to win.









