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Imaginary

Genealogies of practice

  • Classe de Lutte ("Fighting class" / "Lucha de clase").  (Besançon-France) Groupe Medvedkin, 1969
    In the late 1960s, a group of filmmakers led by Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard and Bruno Muel filmed the occupation of factories by militant workers in Sochaux and Besançon, France. Marker and Maret's A bientot, j'espere was shown to the workers at Rhodiaceta, who expressed reservations about the limitations of the filmmakers' perspective. Marker's response to these criticisms was that the logical step forward was for the workers to begin making their own films. That was the start of the Medvedkin Group (named after Soviet filmmaker Alexandr Medvekin), a collective of film technicians and Rhodiaceta workers that would take up this call to advance from "a militant film on the workers' condition to a militant workers' film." The documentaries they made between 1967 and 1974 constitute landmarks in the history of activist and collaborative approaches to film.

  • Numax Presenta.  (España / Spain) Joaquín Jordá, 1979
    A documentary on the experience of worker management at the Numax factory in Barcelona (Spain), which the owners had tried to shut down in the late 1970s. Jordá’s film attempts to articulate two levels of cinematic discourse: on one level the film documents the workers’ assemblies; on another level, there is a hypothetical reconstruction of the company owners’ point of view on the exploitation of the working class, modelled on the aesthetics of tableaux vivants and bourgeois representation. Boycotted by other companies in the sector, determined not to tolerate any competition by intruders, the experience of the worker-managed Numax factory eventually proved unsustainable, and the film manages to capture some of the pessimism of a working class organization confronted with the iron rules of capitalism.

Resources

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Castoriadis. El imaginario radical. Nicolas Poirier 2006, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Visión

  • Dialéctica de la mirada. Walter Benjamin y el proyecto de los Pasajes. Susan Buck-Morss 1989,

  • CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
  • Once upon a future. STEALTH.unlimited, Emil Jurcan Burdeos, 2011,
    Once Upon a Future is an imaginary fast-forward to a possible Bordeaux in 2030 – the target year by which the city today projects to reach the magic number of one million inhabitants. This work of social fiction, made in the format of a novel and exhibition, starts from the question - how would the future look if citizen's collective capacity would grow and become Bordeaux's main driving force? Curated by STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen) and Emil Jurcan (Pulska Grupa), and made in collaboration with François Ayroles, Adrien Demont, Havec, Camille Lavaud, David Prudhomme, Sandrine Revel, Guillaume Trouillard, Sainte-Machine, John Bobaxx, Dellastrada, Fanny Garcia, Kolona, Moam, Jack Usine.

  • Passing the Rainbow ("Cruzando el arco iris").  Sandra Schäfer & Elfe Brandenburger 2007,
    With the collaboration of a number of women from Kabul (educators, actresses, activists), this documentary explores performative strategies that undermine the rigid gender norms in Afghan society. Interweaving cinematographic stagings, documentary footage, and references to Afghan film history, Passing the Rainbow highlights the interplay and the contradictions between real and imagined conditions in women’s lives in Afghanistan.