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Godard in America

Directed by Ralph Thanhauser

See You at Mao

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga-Vertov Group
  • Godard in America

    Directed by Ralph Thanhauser.
    US, 1970, 16mm, black & white, 40 min.
    Print source: HFA

During April 1970, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, a comrade from the Dziga-Vertov Group, toured major American universities screening See You at Mao in order to raise money to finish a film on the Palestinian Al Fatah movement (a project that was never completed). This penetrating document of that tour reveals the enormous appeal of these French filmmakers to a new generation of politically engaged young Americans.

  • See You at Mao (British Sounds)

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga-Vertov Group.
    UK, 1969, 16mm, color, 54 min.
    Print source: HFA

Jean-Luc Godard’s startling, uncompromising attempt at a revolutionary cinema marked a new stage in the aesthetic evolution of modern cinema’s most radical experimenter. Believing that the narrative film—even when modified as in his own Breathless or Masculine-Feminine—was outdated and bourgeois, Godard loosened a propagandistic audio-visual barrage on the senses that combines Maoism, the Beatles, multiple sound tracks, minimal cinema à la Warhol, nudity (accompanied by a women’s liberation statement), and excerpts from Nixon, Pompidou, and the Communist Manifesto, all ending with a blood-spattered hand painfully reaching for a red flag.

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