Be Seeing You: The May '68 uprisings and French film

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/