Shorts in History 9: May 1968

Ce n’est qu’un début by Michel Andrieu et Jacques Kébadian (France – 1968)

50 years later, we most often view this time period as a liberation, a revolt against the morals and aesthetics of a bourgeois society, shamelessly reproduced by the self-proclaimed higher-ups of the society’s hierarchy. This is all true. But if May 1968 was the symbolic climax of a wave of ideas and struggles that were waged throughout the 60’s and early 70’s, there was more to it than that. Many would like to forget or hide this fact. American scholar Kristin Ross reminds us of this in her book, May 68 and Its Afterlives, published in France in the middle of the 2000’s. In it, she states that, “May 68 was the largest movement of the masses in the history of France, and the most important strike in the history of the French workers movement. It remains the only general insurrection ever made in a Western country since World War Two.”

For the 9th Edition of “Shorts in History,” short films that are emblematic of this time period will be screened, followed by a conference with Sébastien Layerle, a specialist of militant cinema.

One Show Only, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 2pm in the Frères Lumière Theater.

To make a reservation : g.bollon@clermont-filmfest.com