In May 1968, demonstrations at the University of Nanterre, triggered a wave of protests across Paris and elsewhere in France, that have loomed in the imaginations of the Western European left.
This month, Juliet talks to Mitchell Abidor, author of May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745336947/may-made-me/) about the relationship between the protests and film: how André Malraux's decision to fire Henri Langlois from the Cinemathèque fed into the insurrection; how far the Provos, Lettrists and Situationists influenced the protests; how the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker changed their practice after May '68; and the feminist and queer filmmakers and groups that emerged in its wake.
WORKS REFERENCED:
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, Stolen Kisses (1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCELURpFlrs
HERBERT MARCUSE, One-Dimensional Man (1964)
Provos (Robert Jasper Grootveld) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omb23Qm_RG8
GUY DEBORD, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
RAOUL VANEIGEM, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)
Jean-Jacques Lebel – https://frieze.com/article/jean-jacques-lebel
Louis Althusser
ISIDORE ISOU, ‘Lettrism and the Youth Uprising of 68’ – https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3794-lettrism-and-the-youth-uprising-of-68
ISIDORE ISOU, A Treatise on Venom and Eternity (1951) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy7XrmOqgyc
GIL J. WOLMAN, L’Anti-concept (1952) - http://www.notbored.org/anticoncept.html
GUY DEBORD, Howlings in Favour of Sade (1952) – http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/howls.htm
Lettrist International, ‘No More Flat Feet!’ (on Chaplin) – http://www.notbored.org/no-more-flat-feet.html
Louis Aragon – https://radicalarchives.org/2013/09/22/aragon-vs-the-68-students/
COSTA-GAVRAS, Z (1969) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/
DZIGA VERTOV GROUP, Pravda (1970) - http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/pravda.html
Eisenstein, Pudovkin & Aleksandrov manifesto – http://tmckosky.asp.radford.edu/thea180/SergieCarSound.htm
Vera Chytilová – http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/vera-chytilova-beginners
CHRIS MARKER, À bientôt, j’espère (1967) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063854/
JEAN RENOIR, La Vie est à nous (1936) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Belongs_to_Us
Cinétracts (1968) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12TB0cICec
Michel Andrieu and Group ARC – collective filmmaking group
États Généraux du cinema
La Reprise du travail aux Wonder (1968) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdby-9ihFk
WILLIAM KLEIN, Grands soirs et petit matins (1977) - http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/william-klein-films-1958-99/william-klein-maydays-grands-soirs-petits-matins
ROMAIN GOUPIL, Mourir à 30 ans (1982) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Life_(film)
João Moreira Salles, In the Intense Now (2017) - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/movies/in-the-intense-now-review-documentary.html
HERVÉ LA ROUX, La Reprise (1996)
CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS, SCUM Manifesto (1976)
CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS, Genet Talks about Angela Davis (1971)
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER, Eight Hours are Not a Day (1972) - https://newsocialist.org.uk/dialectical-soap-operas-rainer-werner-fassbinder-on-tv/
Vidéa and Vidéo Out – French feminist film collectives
Delphine Seyrig – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_Seyrig
LIONEL SOUKAZ, La Race d’ep (1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g
MARCO BELLOCCHIO, Good Morning, Night (2003) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning,_Night
CHRIS MARKER, A Grin Without a Cat (1977) – https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-2/chris-markers-grin-without-cat-revives-revolution-making-history-paul-arthur/
CHRIS DARKE, 'Three Images of May: Cinema and the Uprising' – https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-3-issue-9-spring-summer-2008/three-images-of-may-cinema-and-the-uprising/
Murals at Nanterre - https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-spirit-of-68-nanterre-street-art/
