"L’AN 01" -- The year one

1969 Directed by Jacques Doillon, Gébé, Alain Resnais and Jean Rouch. 90 minutes. In French with English subtitles.
 

This is a collective film, where each of the filmmakers worked separately, but all of them were influenced by a single source—a utopian comic strip devised by the cartoonist Gébé. It’s a farce with a free-wheeling avant-garde approach to cinema, embracing a ludic spirit of subversion. Although this satire is loaded with humour, it is also very ‘engaged’ and can be compared to the experimental ciné-tract short movies that were shot on the barricades of May 1968. It is unstructured in its form, and changes style as it drifts along, touching on issues connected to ’68—the ecology, rejection of authority, challenges to growth and productivity, anti-war, free love, pollution, communal living, rejection of private property and demolishing the idea of forced labor.

Synopsis: all of a sudden, all the ordinary people throughout the world stop working and money becomes worthless. Once everything has come to a grinding halt, we could bring back—reluctantly—only the services and products we really need. What follows is a wide-ranging series of whimsical sketches, a bit like a Monty Python narrative, of how different people react to such a situation.

[extracts of the description of the movie taken from the the Joe's garage website see here]

We thought this movie would be nice to show after the series of documentaries of February. The movie prompts imagination and helps us to imagine other possibilities, what world we would want to live in etc.

There will be free snacks and drinks on donation (pay what/if you can) at the bar!

When? Thursday 22 at 18:00

Where? Squatted social center Krom Boomslot 22

Accessibility: the social center is accessible with wheelchair, the movie has subtitles in english