Chronique d'un été ("Crónica de un verano"/Chronicle of a summer") (Francia / France) Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch, 1961 A documentary film made during the summer of 1960 by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, with the aesthetic collaboration of Quebecois director-cameraman Michel Brault. It is widely regarded as an experimental and structurally innovative film and an example of cinéma vérité. A cast of real-life individuals are led by the filmmakers to discuss topics on the themes of French society and happiness in the working class. With the Algerian war in the background and, the film announces the first stirrings of the unrest and dissatisfaction that would lead to the 1968 revolt and the changes that would sweep French society.
Scripts from a Nation at War. Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, y David Thorne. , Originally produced as a commission for Documenta 12 (2007); 9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a 10 channel video installation that responds to conditions and questions that have arisen since the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. Each video considers the processes by which subjects are positioned as certain kinds of "individuals" in relation to war- artists, soldiers, students, prisoners, detainees, citizens, Iraqis, Europeans, Americans, and so on. These stagings allow inquiry into the individual and collective consequences of war, and the languages and structures of power.
