https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/1ae00dda-6f7b-4058-b615-2c1117905fd2 'Pravda' France, 1969, Groupe Dziga Vertov Language Audio: French, Subtitles: Spanish and English "Two voice-overs called Vladimir and Rosa (in reference to Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg) comment on the images in the film. The film begins with footage of everyday life in Prague during the attempted political revival led by Alexander Dubček, secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. The voiceovers comment negatively on both the distortions of real socialism and what they call the 'Westernization' of the country. The commentary then attempts a critique, or a self-criticism, calling the Prague Spring a betrayal, 'a revision of Marxism by pseudo-communists'. To unmask this 'disease of communism' it is necessary to organize another relationship between images and sounds. This is followed by an analysis of Western penetration into Czechoslovakia, of American capital and of capitalist culture. The next step is to cure the 'image sickness' by superimposing sound that is not 'sick'; the previously seen images then return to the screen, but 'corrected' by commentary from another source, namely the Chinese news agency, and the reading of classic passages from Marxism. The final part of the film pushes the work on image and sound further; Vladimir's voice proclaims the need to 'dismantle the contradictions between image and sound' and to control the relations of artistic production, then critically examines the process of 'construction' of the film, which must be completed not by other images, but by the class struggle. The denouement is a tribute to the thought of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong, to the notes of The Internationale." -https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda_(film) (machine translation) "The Dziga Vertov Group is a film collective founded in 1968 by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin to produce militant films of a Maoist orientation. The collective's name refers to the Soviet director Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), his cine-oeil (Kino-Glaz or Ciné-Eye) and his cinéma-vérité, but it is also influenced by the ideas of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). All the films are signed collectively. ... The films produced by the group were described by critics of the time as abstract, intellectualist, formally ugly and unbearably heavy compared to Godard's previous films. For almost two decades, they literally disappeared from biographies of the Franco-Swiss director until they were rediscovered, thanks to the distance of time (and the restoration of prints); today, critics see in them a continuous aesthetic vertigo, a rigorous formal experimentation and an investigation into the language of cinema. ... The collective acronym appears rather in conferences, interviews and written texts. Its slogan is the intention 'not to make political films, but to make films politically', which is obviously the culmination of a Godardian evolution going from "Brechtian" films ('Les Carabiniers') to investigative films ('Two or Three Things I Know About Her' or 'Masculin Féminin') and up to political didactic films ('La Chinoise' and 'Le Gai Savoir'). Concretely, its slogan means that if a film is not 'politically thought out' from its production, it cannot play an effective political role; at most, it can have a consoling function, for example galvanizing activists or shocking democratic spectators with police brutality." -https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Dziga_Vertov (machine translation) Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:25:16 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/1ae00dda-6f7b-4058-b615-2c1117905fd2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.