Just before the cataclysmic May 1968 events, Marker with Mario Marret, as part of the SLON collective, went to Besançon where textile workers were poised to strike. They captured the fractured process but also the ultimate sense of solidarity. When workers who collaborated with the collective on Be Seeing You were unhappy with the results, the filmmakers returned to make Class of Struggle. Under the name The Medvedkin Group, their aim was to teach workers to make their own movies. Together, these films are some of the most important politically engaged cinema.

Be Seeing You
DIRECTORS: Chris Marker, Mario Marret. 1968. 39 min. France. B&W. French. Digital.

Class of Struggle
DIRECTOR: The Medvedkin Group. 1969. 37 min. France. B&W. French. Digital.

All film screenings in The Path of the Cat: Chris Marker’s Centennial series are available here. 

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.