On strike! : Chris Marker and the Medvedkin group / a film by Mario Marret and Chris Marker.

[New York] : Icarus Films, [2014]

1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

"In 1967, Chris Marker and Mario Marret filmed Be Seeing You (À Bientôt J'Espère), about a strike and factory occupation--the first in France since 1936--by textile workers in the city of Besançon, the goals of which were unusual because the workers refused to disassociate their salary and job security demands from a social and cultural agenda. Nevertheless when the film was completed, and the filmmakers returned to screen it for the workers in Besançon, many of them were not happy with it. La Charniere, the audio recording of their intense debate after the screening, is included on this disc as an extra. In response Marker and his colleagues reorganized their efforts, and began training workers to collaboratively make their own films, under the name "The Medvedkin Group," after Alexander Medvedkin, who invented the cine-train, a mobile production unit that toured the USSR in 1932 filming workers and farmers. Class of Struggle, their first film, picks up a year later and focuses on the organizing efforts of workers at a nearby watch factory, particularly the story of one recently radicalized woman, Suzanne Zedet. She articulated the scope of the workers' demands, which include access to the tools of cultural production."--Container

Images / Video & Film

French

December 08, 2017

À bientôt j'espère: camera, Pierre L'Homme ; editing, Carlos de los Llanos ; sound, Michel Desrois.

DVD; NTSC, region 1.

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