Films For Thought at the Casa:

Secret City

Written by Lee Salter
Directed by Michael Chanan
Showing on Sat 6th July at 3pm
The Casa, Hope Street
Free admission

“A brilliant film” Prof. Paul O’Prey

“Should be required viewing for all politicians” Maureen Duffy

On Saturday, July 6th 2013 between 3pm and 5pm the first in a series of documentary films, Secret City, will be screened at the CASA on Hope Street Liverpool.

A film about the City of London, the Corporation that governs it, and its role in the economic crisis.

Over the past five years the economic crisis has focused attention on capitalism and its failings to a degree not seen for decades. After the numerous banking and financial scandals, questions abound about the origins of the crisis and the role of financial capital.

Secret City uncovers the hidden history of the institutions at the heart of the crisis.

Exposing the inner workings of the City of London and its ancient government, the Corporation of London, the film reveals how it resists democratisation, how it has worked to become the predominant force in global capitalism, and the City‘s relation to the metropolis in which it lies embedded. But Secret City is not just a film for Londoners but for everyone exposed to the crisis. The role of t he City concerns everyone everywhere.

London and the City of London are not the same place. London is a metropolis of 8 million people. The City of London is the famous square mile in the middle, with about 7,000 residents but many more businesses.

A Corporation older than Parliament, the City of London has played a key historical role in protecting and promoting the interests of finance capital.

Secret City investigates the power wielded by the Corporation of London over British economic policy, through which it sustains London‘s prime position at the hub of global finance capital —not least through control of the majority of the world‘s tax havens.

The film exposes the Corporation‘s anti-democratic constitution, the ancient laws which allow it function as a state within a state, and thus to promote an illusory promise of economic growth at the cost of the real economy.

Secret City was voted Best Independent Film at the London Film Festival this year.

www.secretcity-thefilm.com