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Political Cinema and 1968
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MLK in Tennessee with Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson,
and Ralph Abernathy, Lorraine Motel,
April 1968
March on Washington 1963
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Paris 1968 riots
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students and police at Berkeley protests, 1965
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Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard,and Franois Truffaut call for a halt
to the 1968 Cannes Film Festival due
to the ongoing nationwide strike in
France.
Political cinema in the West:
1. Engaged cinema
2. Political Modernism3. Mainstream art cinema
dealing with political issues
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Franois Truffaut:
Because it was the logical thing to do.
France was closing down, therefore Cannes
had to close down. While I was driving to
Cannes on May 17 to take part in a press
conference about the Cinmathque affair, I
was listening to the radio and every half-hour
came reports of more factories being
occupied. I wasnt sorry to see France
paralyzed, the government was in disarray.
Next day, when I asked for the Festival to be
stopped, I wasnt thinking particularly of agesture of solidarity with the workersId
have been more likely to feel solidarity with
the four students who were sentenced to jail
after a hasty session in a Sunday court. I
wasnt really thinking of challenging or
reforming the Festival, of doing away with
evening dress or making it more cultural. No,I just felt that in its own interest the Festival
should stop of its own accord rather than be
halted a few days later by the force of events.
I didnt see it as a military coup, I simply
wanted an unambiguous situation. In fact,
this is how it happened.
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Film Essay- Cinematic essay: what the previous generation of documentary
filmmakers took as their "subject"--a passive subject as compared to the "active"
fictional subject--film essayists can now take as their theme in which the subject is a
particular development or an interpretation of that theme, and one that has a
determining influence upon the form of the film. The theme thereby becomes
extremely active in that the cinematic essay is often a meditation on ideas in conflict
and these conflicts actually suggest the form that the film might take. The cinematic
revolution now in progress is based on what is essentially a very simple idea: that a
subject can engender form and that to choose a subject is to make an aesthetic
choice. (Noel Burch, Non-Fictional Subjects, from THE THEORY OF FILM PRACTICE).
Collage Film
Dialectical Materialism
Brechts aesthetics, Brechtian
Brechtian realism
Poststructuralism and deconstructioninfluences of Jacques Derrida
The Dziga Vertov Group
1. Spotaneism2. Revisionism
3. Educational apparatus
4. Ideology
1. Ideology in everyday life
2. Cinema and ideology
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Tout va bien. 1972; directed by Jean-Luc
Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand.
[Everything is Fine]
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"Actually, if I have a secret ambition, it is to be put in charge of the French newsreel services. All my
films have been reports on the state of the nation; they are newsreel documents, treated in a personal
manner perhaps, but in terms of contemporary actualityWhen people ask me why I talk or have my
characters talkabout VietnamI refer the questioner to his own newspaper. It's all there. And it's all
mixed up. This is why I am so attracted by television. A televised newspaper made up of carefully
prepared documents would be extraordinaryThis is why, rather than speak of cinema and television, I
prefer to use the more general terms of images and sounds.
--Godard in 'L'Avant-Scene du Cinema 70', May 1967.
Gerard Fromanger is a multimedia artist
associated with the figuration narrative
movement of the 60s and 70s. Film-tract n
1968 recreates Fromangers painting Le
rouge.
Cine/Film tract
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Marker recalls the events of May 68: In May, anyway, the final whistle came quickly:
with the first casualty. Left to their own devices amidst a reassured country, they
became weakly and purposeless. Historical anarchy had diedheroicallyin Spain. To
refer to it now made no more sense than being a royalist, unless it became an
ideological business, quite profitable at that. The Communist Party had missed every
helping hand offered by History and started the long spin of a motorless airplane.
French Maoism would remain a landmark in the history of teratology. The foolishness
of morons is a plague, but statistically speaking we have to put up with it. What is
fascinating is the foolishness of clever people and, in this particular case, some of the
cleverest.
Chris Marker
A Grin Without a Cat,
1977.
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