Revolutionary Tourism: Godard in USA
Wednesday October 7th - 7:30PM
16Beaver
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10014
Perhaps we can blame Che Guevara for providing the model for a 1960's Marxist world-traveler where, on the strength of past successes, you take trips to seemingly sympathetic countries to both assist and instruct (with mixed results). In the cinema this idea was taken up by, among others, Chris Marker and Pier Paolo Pasolini; but its most notorious practitioner was Jean-Luc Godard.
Before going to England, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Palestine, Godard came to America, to make his film on the coming revolution with noted cinema verite cameramen Ricky Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker. Godard would eventually give up on the project, feeling lost and confused, leaving Pennebaker to take the footage he shot, thread it together, and release it as ONE PM.
This is the first of three screenings Red Channels has organized with the Left Forum, in advance of their October 15th free public debate with Tom Hayden at the Community Church.
--Rethink Afghanistan: Tom Hayden vs. Michael O'Hanlon - Robert Greenwald, 2009, 7 minutes
--One PM - DA Pennebaker [with Jean-Luc Godard & Richard Leacock], 1970, 78 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes | Digital Projection
Discussion with:
--Kazembe Balagun - outreach coordinator at the Brecht Forum, co-organizer of the Visual Liberation Film Festival
--Cullen Gallagher - film critic and festival programmer, co-curator of the "Docs on Auteurs" series at UnionDocs
--Jacob Perlin - film programmer at BAMcinematek, founder of the Film Desk, curator of the "JLG in USA" DVD included in the March/April 2009 issue of The Believer
Co-sponsored by the Left Forum & UnionDocs
Special thanks to Laura Beatty & Frazer Pennebaker
Left Forum
Pennebaker Hegedus Films
Rethink Afghanistan
16Beaver
UnionDocs
(The Greenwald film is available online at the Rethink Afghanistan website. The Pennebaker film is available on DVD from Pennebaker Hegedus Films.)