Film

Occupy, Resist, Produce – Vio.Me.

2020 · 30m · Documentary

In mid-February 2013 Vio.Me. began producing organic cleaning products and organic soap. Vio.Me. formed a cooperative in order to operate legally. However, Vio.Me. does not operate as a traditional cooperative. The workers do not consider the company their property but a common good that should serve the community. In the film the Vio.Me. worker Makis Anagnostou states that: “Our proposal is addressed to the whole of society, because we, as the working class, have proven that we can self-manage a factory, that we can do it ourselves, but our proposal that reaches out to society is that we can all self-manage our lives. This is why it concerns the whole of society. The factory is not a closed space, nor are we the vanguard of the working class.

• Dario AzzelliniProducer · Director · Editor
• Oliver ResslerEditor · Producer · Director

Occupy, Resist, Produce – Vio.Me. A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler

Release date

August 18, 2020

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

30m

Genres

Documentary