Sunset Seduction - Charles de Agustin

“Sunset Seduction” by Charles de Agustin, an evolving project centered on a 45-minute film alongside site-specific contracts and discussions, stars a liberal philanthropist yearning for his next fling with radical politics. A preview will be presented at Millennium Film Workshop on Saturday, December 7, 2024. Doors 7:30pm, screening 8pm, artist talk and open discussion until 10pm.

Made as the Palestine solidarity movement escalated in 2024, the film unfolds in essayistic fragments considering ideas of freedom, violence, and the seductive capture of revolutionary ideology. Nonprofit organizations—even those driven by equity, decolonization, abolition—are tied to an unsustainable infrastructure that consistently creeps toward establishment liberalism. “Sunset Seduction” revitalizes the spirit of INCITE’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded” (2007); emphasizes collective grassroots action in the popular imagination, which may include siphoning and subverting philanthropic resources, far beyond electoral politics and do-gooder grantmaking; and works toward a “more radical form of complicity” (Moten &…