FIPR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: French New Wave, Bandung Conference, Andrei Tarkovsky
Document Summary
The breakdown of romantic cinema and the coming of modernism. Algerian national liberation front began attacks on french institutions. American students protesting vietnam war; chairman mao cultural revolution in 1966 targeting artists and intellectuals with western ideas; prague spring in czechoslovakia in 1968; may 68 massive vernal strikes and occupation of universities and factories in france, etc. In the 1960s films modernist films were personal. Concerned with film form rejection of consumerism, political. "the person making the film is subject of the film. " Re-visioning of the meaning of the fundamental building block of the edit. The shot now says "i think"- a unit of time as much as action. Questions about content, like political freedom, in post colonial countries. Total challenge to "closed romantic realism", mainstream cinema"s "utopian parallel universe" Conditions of filming changes: new lenses, faster film stocks, lighter equipment, natural lighting and set ups, shoulder mounted cameras.
