vision, mission, values, and purpose

third-i-vision

We are a community that critically engages in media through an anticolonial-abolitionist-liberatory lens.

we turn to media that more accurately projects the global majority’s past and present, to envision a new future.

our mission

We seek to engage in anti-colonial films and media, and films that necessitate critique, as an exercise in both gazing oppositionally and in historical consciousness. When you attend our screenings, we will see the casualties of colonialism, neoliberalism, and globalism, and we will rē-member. By seeing and feeling how these forces (have) affect(ed) us collectively, we motivate our bodyminds to imagine a future outside of the grip of these forces.

our values

○ Openness ○ Honesty ○ Reflection

come with an open mind, leave with a full heart.

Our space is a site of encounter and conocimiento. You’re invited to a place that is meant for open discussion, to share personal experiences, to learn, to be open to new ideas and experiences, and to be open to new and old ways of seeing the world.

purpose

In other words, we are liberating our bodyminds by learning to see what has been hiding in plain sight—together.

program of the oppressed

In our first season, titled What is “Anti-Conlonial?, our program is designed to provide a holistic understanding of anti-coloniality, and a foundation to build upon in subsequent seasons. Our second season is titled Coyolxauhqui’s Imperative: Acts of Rē-membering. As the title implies, the program leans into Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories (Coyolxauhqui’s Imperative) of healing our fractured societies and creating a new society that is powered by love as opposed to capitalism, war, white supremacy, or privilege. In our third season, Third World Liberation Front, our program rēvisits films, texts, and demands surrounding the coalitional student movement that began in the 1960s in California, and which was part of a greater global anti-war, anti-empire, anti-colonial movement. With the Olympic games taking place in Los Angeles in 2028, the fourth program leading into the games interrogates host city tactics that further oppress its vulnerable inhabitants, a storyline that has been consistent since the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.