1968/2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/world/europe/30france.html

Retour sur mai 68 at the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago
http://fcc.uchicago.edu/events/mai68.html
See especially:
May 5
4:00 pm
Cobb Hall, #307
5811 S. Ellis
KRISTIN ROSS
(NYU)
“Art is What Makes Life More Interesting than Art: May ‘68 and Militant Cinema”
Immediately following the discussion there will be a roundtable discussion with the participation of Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), […]

The cinema rises
Friday 21 Mars 2008
Years 68
The single place invites the people which miss for Night 68

We do not commemorate 68, us did not know 68. We have only the nostalgia of the future. Happening and total art, insurrectionary militancy and revolutionary homosexual face, black power and radical feminism will compose a cinematographic […]

Out of the Vault 2008

 
 
 
Friday, May 16, 7pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Cassidy Theater
78 E. Washington Street., Chicago
Free
Out of the Vault - Year of Confrontation revisits the turbulent week in August 1968 when the Democratic National Convention turned Chicago into the frontlines of a larger political and social conflict. The world had already experienced the assassinations of […]

L’Esprit 68
 
The Spirit of May ‘68
 
A series of fiction & non-fiction films
 (All films subtitled)
 
Thursday 1st May 2008
From 10.00am to 10.00pm
 
10.00am: “More” by B. Schroeder, 1969, 112 min (Feature film)
 
12.00pm: “Lip, l’imagination au pouvoir” by C. Rouaud, 2006, 118min (Documentary)
 
 Buffet Lunch
 
2.30pm: “Le Fond de […]

April 21
6:00 pm
Rosenwald Hall, University of Chicago campus
Film Screening
Grands soirs et petits matins
William Klein, 1978, 83 minutes
French director William Klein, weaves compelling original footage from various sources (barricades, assemblies, confrontations, etc.) into a compelling visual narrative that captures the spirit of Mai 68. Forty years after the first protests ignited the streets of Paris, this […]

DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO
8-11 MAY 2008
FILMHOUSE, EDINBURGH
DIVERSIONS is a new festival of experimental film and video organised jointly by Filmhouse cinema and the Film Studies section of the University of Edinburgh.
The festival will begin with an historical introduction to experimental cinema, led by Pip Chodorov, filmmaker, founder of Revoir video and […]

SDS screening: Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin Mon. 4/21 7PM Stuart 105
 
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave. room 105
UChicago Students for a Democratic Society and the Platypus Affiliated
Society present a film screening-discussion:
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
with John D’Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: the life and […]

The UK’s independent left magazine “Red Pepper” takes on the legacy of 68 in its latest issue: “1968 The Mysterious Chemistry of Social Change.”In this issue, Mike Marqusee argues that the left doesnt need to be nostalgic for 1968.

Here are several articles outlining and remembering the history of the ” Tlatelolco Massacre” that preceded the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. This event reminds us that events like the Olympics rarely occur without bloodshed.

 Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 left hundreds dead in Mexico 
Upsurge and Massacre in Mexico, 1968 pt.1

Upsurge pt. 2