The title of this documentary series is misleading: its protagonists are not “anarchists” in the classic sense of the term. The activists that American filmmaker Todd Schramke has followed for more than five years (between 2015 and 2020) oppose all forms of constraint imposed by the state and other institutions such as banking systems, but still believe in private property, personal enrichment and do not care much about social justice…
At least that’s what this chronicle of the rise and fall of the community that grew up around Canadian-born libertarian Jeff Berwick in Acapulco, and the annual Anarchapulco conference, bringing together “big hitters” and simple libertarian sympathizers. Schramke delivers here a portrait of a group of Americans from different backgrounds and socio-economic profiles, who decided to settle in the famous Mexican seaside town, reputed to be particularly violent, to live their “anarchist” utopia, freed from the ” yoke” of the state.
The documentary series, too stuck on its “characters”, whose “evolution” and contradictions can be seen throughout the story, turns out to be as entertaining as a preposterous fiction, but unfortunately does not offer a critical look at this community and its actions. This lack of perspective forces us to do our own research on Anarchapulco and its regulars. The series concludes in the spring of 2020, before the conference dwindling in popularity shifted its focus to pandemic conspiracy theories. There is another subject of documentary series…
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