In Trump's Dystopia, Movie Theaters Nationwide Screening "1984"

Against the backdrop of an increasingly right-wing Donald Trump presidency, movie theaters around the world will screen 1984 on Tuesday, April 4, marking the date George Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, begins keeping a secret diary in his first act of rebellion against a totalitarian state. 

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Roughly 180 theaters nationwide are taking part in the evening of cultural resistance, plus a handful in Canada, the U.K., Sweden, New Zealand, and Croatia. Find a complete listing here.

A statement from participating venues, published earlier this year, reads in part:

Dylan Skolnick, co-director of the Cinema Arts Centre on Long Island, New York, who came up with the idea along with Adam Birnbaum, director of film programming at the Avon Theatre Film Centre in Connecticut, told Al Jazeera that the Trump administration’s “undermining of the concept of facts and the demonization of foreign enemies…really resonate in 1984.”