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...more than any art work is about any phenomena. Rather their films are a series of formal choices made according to a given criteria, and relate to possible criteria for formal choices, not strikes or demonstrations. Their political films are about making political films. Works like See You at Mao and Pravda are definitely not intended to incite the masses; rather they are to serve as objects of analysis for Glauber Rocha, Chris Marker's SLON group in Belgium, the Medvedkin group in France, and other cadres of political filmmakers wrestling with the creation of revolutionary forms...
...progression from Mao to East, the latter film is the most violent in the Group's attempts to structure through sound our apprehension of visual meaning. At one point the screen shows us a green field, and the narrator screams, "Red! Red! Red!" Earlier, a four-minute shot of a nineteenth-century couple obscured by tall grass is described in eight different periods, and peopled by eight different historical figures. These are not empty exercises. They are instead statements of Godard's belief that any image can denote virtually anything; and more importantly, that our inability to recognize this fact...
Hensman said that the cultural revolution, having passed its initial stage in which the course of the nation was fought out, is still very active. Anti-Maoist forces have been quelled, Mao's predominance reaffirmed, and thework of the cultural revolution has begun, he said...
That university has been of great interest to Hensman, because, he said, along with Peking University, it has played a major role in the cultural revolution. In July 1968, Mao sent a large band of workers into Ching Hua to carry out the proletarianization of education, and bring the intellectuals in closer contact with the problems they consider...
Through confusing academic discourse Rohmer leaves you with a murky residue, what Godard has called "a fabric of contradictions" between consciousness and action. Like See You At Mao, Ma Nuit Chez Mand is about "finding the right line" through the chaos, be it political or moral. Both films, however, resist solutions as well. How complete a human clarity is possible remains always questionable. With all his worrying about how to live, about his personal beliefs and his clear conscience, Jean-Louis fails to make an important human perception about the connection between Maud and Francoise, which his scientific outlook...