Cinétracts (1968) - full transcript
A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.
What is he doing?
He shoots them
They were in revolt
They could not tolerate it
Many things happen
Strange characters appear
We organise
Yes, occupied factories
But, in truth, it could not last
The chaos [shit-in-bed revelry] it is him!
(Reference back to DeGaulle comment)
Nothing
You are countrymen
Sleep, We Watch Over You
Gilles Tautin
Killed in the people's cause
It was the night
We thought it was the Phantom
But it was the class struggle
Students, teachers, workers, solidarity
Local union of the
Synidcalists of Levallois
Occupied factories
The students have turned back the power
Workers can overthrow
Louder than '36,
let us not demobilise.
CGT. The workers.
Portuguese manufacturers of Renau
This was also the spring
We occupy your ..?
What do you think?
Hope for another season
40 H[our Week]
Our 40 H[our week]
Union freedoms
Retirement at 60
Socialism?
There is
a
solution
It is
participation
that changes the condition of man
In the midst of
modern civilisation
i.e., De Gaulle = Franco
(Spanish fascist leader)
The republic (The public matter
The public again/anew)
and the liberty
will be provided
and the progress
the independence
(the violet pendant/the India pendant)
and the peace
will be victorious
i.e., De Gaulle = Salazar
(Portuguese fascist leader)
It is necessary that
It is necessary that
the Republic lives long
and that
France lives long
i.e., De Gaulle = Patakos (Greek fascist)
and Duvalier (Haitian dictator)
The workers
The workers resumed
the red flag
The fight
of fragile hands
The fragile hands of students
seized,
seized
seized the revolution
Art evolution
A hand seized the revolution
the art evolution
and the production
and the production
of the other
A hand seized the revolution, the art
evolution and the production of the other
The Red Students of Lund
These years
These years have
have taught us
have taught us all
better
(friend / they)
Mr Editor,
to analyse
analyse better
now
(gilded earlier)
we no longer accept
any kind of
any kind of obvious truth
("ver" = worm)
We do not believe
We do not believe that there are
We do not believe that there are
obvious truths
Cohn-Bendit (student leader) at Dachau
Obvious truths
(the worms/i/tea/Eve/i/Dante)
Obvious truths
(apart/belonging/apartment)
Hollywood on the Seine
Allah bourgeois philosophy
Think 12 seconds
Writing Revolution
The book provides information on the strike
The Universe of Knowledge
Mathematics and Facts - Hans Freudenthal
The Origins of the Working Class
Jurgen Kuczynski
Cultural Revolution/Ass
Sex/Sexual Revolution
Think 9 seconds
Serve the people
Against bosses and scabs
Act to Live
Even in the heart of the fight,
despite the tragedies and blood,
the reporter ("fascist") thinks mostly
in the manner of a wirephoto machine
waiting for his photo
to disseminate worldwide
NDP [National Democratic Party, Germany]
elections/treason
Think 10 seconds
Socialism of the Regions
October In ...
Third World/Dream
Escape
FBI + CIA = PANAM/TWA
Think 11 seconds
Pall Mall
...american ... for men
Advertising + sex = fascism
Think 8 seconds
Vietnam: Total War
Think
All
Rather than the end, hope without end
Hope
Society
in
its
entirety
must
be changed
into
a
school
Society as a whole must
be turned into a gigantic school
(Cheap boss revisionist line in education)
Youth
age/game
constitutes
art / agile clay
fundamental
[Debate concerning the critique of the university)
to
your
work
We deposit
in it/her
our hope
and
we
deposit
in it/her
our
hope
and
we
(no/us)
Power resides in (the) strike
prepare to take
with our hands
the flesh covering
A
A
spark
(more) spark(s)
can
can
set
the
the
fire
fire to
to
all
all
the
(bastard)
the
(bastard/informing)
the
(alarm/bastard/informing)
the
(alarm/the bastard/informing/the polisse)
(com)plain(t)
plain
(peace/wool/bread)
spark > fire > plain
The forces
The forces of
The order (of doctors)
The order (of architects)
The order (of film-makers)
The forces of the order
(of the Knights Teutonic) possess
the order (of doctors) possess
the order (of architects) possess
all/all day/forever
all of/forever
all blood
The forces of order possess
forever the connections with
with the
the sexual disorder
the connections of blood
with sexual disorder
Look the chaos in the face 10 seconds
Death
+ ?
Look things in the face, 20 seconds
They died for you,
but you can not ever (?)
Look the ? in the face 30 seconds
Thunder, while flashes of lightning,
bright as day, kept brusquely revealing
the two pleasured cunts of the now
silent girls. A brutal frenzy drove our
three bodies. Two young mouths fought
over my ass, my balls and my cock, but I
still kept pushing apart female legs wet
with saliva and come, splaying them as
if writhing out of a monster?s grip,
and yet that monster was nothing but the
utter violence of my movements. The hot
rain was finally pouring down and
over our fully exposed bodies. Huge
booms of thunder shook us, heightening
our fury, wresting forth our cries
of rage, which each flash accompanied
with a glimpse of our sexual parts.
Simone has found a mud puddle and
was smearing herself wildly: she was
jerking off with the earth and coming
violently, whipped by the downpour, my
head locked in her soil-covered legs, her
face wallowing in the puddle, where she
was brutally churning Marcelle?s cunt
Look at the objects for 40 seconds
Rue de? / Neither God nor master
Strife / We have to talk
Culture is the inversion of life
You don't want to be fucked
by bourgeois culture all your life
The students
[The students] at the factory
The workers
The [workers] at the university
Work
Learning
Student solidarity with workers
To fight effectively
against culture
culture the secret weapon
To fight effectively against culture
the favourite weapon of the bourgeoisie
student
student worker solidarity
Rather, life
[Beer advertisement]
Voice of the working woman
Revolutionary
Cohn-Benoit at Dachau
Long live the police
Brave people, with us!
and plenty of violence!
Enough violence
Enough violence
including?
We protest
forcefully
It hurts us
Our walls are dirty
Never work
Urban planning, cleanliness
sexuality
Howl
Comrades, the people are with us
CRS (police riot squad)
= SS
Anarchy + De Gaulle (see 2:09)
and prevents us from sleeping
Now that common sense is profitable
United
in fraternal love
We're back again
The Imposture. Mitterand controls France
Waldeck Rochet is a danger to France
? De Gaulle and his reforms
De Gaulle Of Course
He that lives standing erect
Not afraid to advance step by step
Retirment at 60
Our 40 hour (week)
Unity of Action
Union freedoms
Support the workers' fight
10 years of disregarding the claims
of the working class and the people
Down with the anti-popular Gaullist
regime of unemployment and misery
The Power of the Workers
Impatience
Shout
Never work
Power is cursed.
That's why I'm an anarchist
I have nothing to say
but I want to say it
Speech is a Molotov Cocktail
Hasn't any hold on you
To whom the future belongs
Erect!
Students and Workers Unite
The struggle continues
Spanish workers with the French People
Your struggle is just beginning
Teachers, workers, solidarity
We won a battle but we know that the
struggle for our movement will be hard
Good comrades,
stay united until the victory
Let me tell you
at the risk
of appearing
ridiculous ['cul' = ass]
the revolutionary
the TRUE revolutionary
is
[The Love and The Hate]
guided by the great
sentiments of love
in your striving
of revolutionary
We will try to advance
as quickly as possible
opening the way
but we know
we need
all our strength in the mass of workers
and the poor man
advances
[Aragon: The Unfinished Novel]
more rapidly
if we
stimulate with
your example (i.e., Che)
[yes to Che]
Mr Cohn-Bendit is the object of
a ban in France
Mr Cohn-Bendit, the leader of the 22
March student movement
is the object of a ban in France, taken
by the Minister of the Interior
He is considered 'undesirable in France'
and will be turned away if he turns up
at a border post. Mr Cohn-Bendit,
who went to Berlin
where he took the floor Tuesday night
at the grand amphitheater
of the Free University, must participate
Wednesday in a meeting in Amsterdam
Mr Cohn-Bendit is known to be
a German national.
We
are
all
undesirables
We
are
all
German Jews
undesirables
... the truth is revolutionary
all
we
We occupy your factory
Comrades, if all the people
did as we did
German Jews
Renault at Flins
My country hurts
C is for
unemployment (chomage)
F is for
armaments (force de frappe)
K is for
kepi (French army)
I is for
(gold) idol
O is for
orders by King Charles:
Dismantling of Social Security
M is for
lies (mensonges): profits, the
social year..prosperity..working capital
without me ... civil war!
J is for youth (jeunesse)
Unpaid labour at 14 years old
We learn nothing. The boss does not
give us a penny. It's two years lost.
Unemployed at the age of Romeo
We have outdoor boots
H is for housing
S is for segregation
5000 km to sweep
Who creates?
Why?
Low, infernal cadences
E is for
Students
Teachers
Explosion
Enthusiasm
Already ten days of joy
P
Life first
U
Factories, Universities, Unions
Yes, occupy the factories
Students, workers, unite
1968 is for 1936
Happiness
exists / hours
Hours (apply the 8 hour day)
How to vote against bolshevism
(Commandant) Robin (of the) OAS [which
violently fought Algerian independence]
64-68 - 2000 fascists freed
10 years earlier
CDR (Committee for the Defence of the Republic)
OAS watchfulness
Marc Lanvin (young man):
assassinated by the CDR
Curutchet OAS killer
(the four generals who led the attempted
1961 coup, the Algiers Putsch)
The future
OAS=SS. Unity without exclusivity
No to dictatorship and fascism
No to war and misery
Unite against the OAS
But the fight continues
Whatever the cops think
Whatever the fascists think
Whatever the 'elect' think
France resurrects
1. Splinter groups
Drive them back
to their
to their nothingness
2. Tired of Utopias
Power is everybody's business. The state
and the employers are hiding behind:
Pack
things
At the service of Poulidor and Pingeons
(Tour de France)
The price we pay for being
"terribly English"
3. leave
Garden party a Malignon: the UDR
deputies know ...
leave the politics
... to
The nation included
... experts
4. The true revolution
It is the first injunction
Freedom of labour
Peugeot Bosses Police 2 Deaths
It is
It is freedom
of ex-
political expression
5. The new order is
progress
technical (progress)
For the young
(more products)
For France, a real national revolution
In
theory
the crucial task
ahead of the lenghty youth market
in theory the crucial task of
the movement
communist
It is. It is
(What to do?)
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is
(Workers, students, one fight)
... to develop
with all the rigour
with all the rigor
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is to develop
with all the rigor and audacity required
(unchanged)
... the (science)
the new philosophy
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is to develop
with all the rigor and audacity required
the science and the new philosophy
new
new year
by linking them
to the exigencies
and
inventions
In theory, the crucial task
of the communist movement
is to develop, with all the rigor and
audacity required, the science
and the new philosophy by linking
them to the exigencies and inventions
of the practice
of the struggle
of classes
revolutionary
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is to develop
with all the rigor and audacity required
the science and the new philosophy
by linking them to the exigencies
and inventions
of the revolutionary classes' struggle
Wrinkle/line/ripple
strike committee
May
The University as a Red Base.
Disinformation comes home
Comrades, Workers! Against the
employers' and police provocations...
May
The walls
May
The words
student
power
worker
student
power
worker
student
power
worker
dream
strike
dream
strike
dream
strike
revolution
May
It's the same power
Face the repression
All united in the strike
Cellophane (the factory)
where the striek continues
Broaden the action
It's the same struggle
It is
who
It is they who
and
and us
and us who
You
we
we
and here
and this, why not?
Free expression
He shoots them
They were in revolt
They could not tolerate it
Many things happen
Strange characters appear
We organise
Yes, occupied factories
But, in truth, it could not last
The chaos [shit-in-bed revelry] it is him!
(Reference back to DeGaulle comment)
Nothing
You are countrymen
Sleep, We Watch Over You
Gilles Tautin
Killed in the people's cause
It was the night
We thought it was the Phantom
But it was the class struggle
Students, teachers, workers, solidarity
Local union of the
Synidcalists of Levallois
Occupied factories
The students have turned back the power
Workers can overthrow
Louder than '36,
let us not demobilise.
CGT. The workers.
Portuguese manufacturers of Renau
This was also the spring
We occupy your ..?
What do you think?
Hope for another season
40 H[our Week]
Our 40 H[our week]
Union freedoms
Retirement at 60
Socialism?
There is
a
solution
It is
participation
that changes the condition of man
In the midst of
modern civilisation
i.e., De Gaulle = Franco
(Spanish fascist leader)
The republic (The public matter
The public again/anew)
and the liberty
will be provided
and the progress
the independence
(the violet pendant/the India pendant)
and the peace
will be victorious
i.e., De Gaulle = Salazar
(Portuguese fascist leader)
It is necessary that
It is necessary that
the Republic lives long
and that
France lives long
i.e., De Gaulle = Patakos (Greek fascist)
and Duvalier (Haitian dictator)
The workers
The workers resumed
the red flag
The fight
of fragile hands
The fragile hands of students
seized,
seized
seized the revolution
Art evolution
A hand seized the revolution
the art evolution
and the production
and the production
of the other
A hand seized the revolution, the art
evolution and the production of the other
The Red Students of Lund
These years
These years have
have taught us
have taught us all
better
(friend / they)
Mr Editor,
to analyse
analyse better
now
(gilded earlier)
we no longer accept
any kind of
any kind of obvious truth
("ver" = worm)
We do not believe
We do not believe that there are
We do not believe that there are
obvious truths
Cohn-Bendit (student leader) at Dachau
Obvious truths
(the worms/i/tea/Eve/i/Dante)
Obvious truths
(apart/belonging/apartment)
Hollywood on the Seine
Allah bourgeois philosophy
Think 12 seconds
Writing Revolution
The book provides information on the strike
The Universe of Knowledge
Mathematics and Facts - Hans Freudenthal
The Origins of the Working Class
Jurgen Kuczynski
Cultural Revolution/Ass
Sex/Sexual Revolution
Think 9 seconds
Serve the people
Against bosses and scabs
Act to Live
Even in the heart of the fight,
despite the tragedies and blood,
the reporter ("fascist") thinks mostly
in the manner of a wirephoto machine
waiting for his photo
to disseminate worldwide
NDP [National Democratic Party, Germany]
elections/treason
Think 10 seconds
Socialism of the Regions
October In ...
Third World/Dream
Escape
FBI + CIA = PANAM/TWA
Think 11 seconds
Pall Mall
...american ... for men
Advertising + sex = fascism
Think 8 seconds
Vietnam: Total War
Think
All
Rather than the end, hope without end
Hope
Society
in
its
entirety
must
be changed
into
a
school
Society as a whole must
be turned into a gigantic school
(Cheap boss revisionist line in education)
Youth
age/game
constitutes
art / agile clay
fundamental
[Debate concerning the critique of the university)
to
your
work
We deposit
in it/her
our hope
and
we
deposit
in it/her
our
hope
and
we
(no/us)
Power resides in (the) strike
prepare to take
with our hands
the flesh covering
A
A
spark
(more) spark(s)
can
can
set
the
the
fire
fire to
to
all
all
the
(bastard)
the
(bastard/informing)
the
(alarm/bastard/informing)
the
(alarm/the bastard/informing/the polisse)
(com)plain(t)
plain
(peace/wool/bread)
spark > fire > plain
The forces
The forces of
The order (of doctors)
The order (of architects)
The order (of film-makers)
The forces of the order
(of the Knights Teutonic) possess
the order (of doctors) possess
the order (of architects) possess
all/all day/forever
all of/forever
all blood
The forces of order possess
forever the connections with
with the
the sexual disorder
the connections of blood
with sexual disorder
Look the chaos in the face 10 seconds
Death
+ ?
Look things in the face, 20 seconds
They died for you,
but you can not ever (?)
Look the ? in the face 30 seconds
Thunder, while flashes of lightning,
bright as day, kept brusquely revealing
the two pleasured cunts of the now
silent girls. A brutal frenzy drove our
three bodies. Two young mouths fought
over my ass, my balls and my cock, but I
still kept pushing apart female legs wet
with saliva and come, splaying them as
if writhing out of a monster?s grip,
and yet that monster was nothing but the
utter violence of my movements. The hot
rain was finally pouring down and
over our fully exposed bodies. Huge
booms of thunder shook us, heightening
our fury, wresting forth our cries
of rage, which each flash accompanied
with a glimpse of our sexual parts.
Simone has found a mud puddle and
was smearing herself wildly: she was
jerking off with the earth and coming
violently, whipped by the downpour, my
head locked in her soil-covered legs, her
face wallowing in the puddle, where she
was brutally churning Marcelle?s cunt
Look at the objects for 40 seconds
Rue de? / Neither God nor master
Strife / We have to talk
Culture is the inversion of life
You don't want to be fucked
by bourgeois culture all your life
The students
[The students] at the factory
The workers
The [workers] at the university
Work
Learning
Student solidarity with workers
To fight effectively
against culture
culture the secret weapon
To fight effectively against culture
the favourite weapon of the bourgeoisie
student
student worker solidarity
Rather, life
[Beer advertisement]
Voice of the working woman
Revolutionary
Cohn-Benoit at Dachau
Long live the police
Brave people, with us!
and plenty of violence!
Enough violence
Enough violence
including?
We protest
forcefully
It hurts us
Our walls are dirty
Never work
Urban planning, cleanliness
sexuality
Howl
Comrades, the people are with us
CRS (police riot squad)
= SS
Anarchy + De Gaulle (see 2:09)
and prevents us from sleeping
Now that common sense is profitable
United
in fraternal love
We're back again
The Imposture. Mitterand controls France
Waldeck Rochet is a danger to France
? De Gaulle and his reforms
De Gaulle Of Course
He that lives standing erect
Not afraid to advance step by step
Retirment at 60
Our 40 hour (week)
Unity of Action
Union freedoms
Support the workers' fight
10 years of disregarding the claims
of the working class and the people
Down with the anti-popular Gaullist
regime of unemployment and misery
The Power of the Workers
Impatience
Shout
Never work
Power is cursed.
That's why I'm an anarchist
I have nothing to say
but I want to say it
Speech is a Molotov Cocktail
Hasn't any hold on you
To whom the future belongs
Erect!
Students and Workers Unite
The struggle continues
Spanish workers with the French People
Your struggle is just beginning
Teachers, workers, solidarity
We won a battle but we know that the
struggle for our movement will be hard
Good comrades,
stay united until the victory
Let me tell you
at the risk
of appearing
ridiculous ['cul' = ass]
the revolutionary
the TRUE revolutionary
is
[The Love and The Hate]
guided by the great
sentiments of love
in your striving
of revolutionary
We will try to advance
as quickly as possible
opening the way
but we know
we need
all our strength in the mass of workers
and the poor man
advances
[Aragon: The Unfinished Novel]
more rapidly
if we
stimulate with
your example (i.e., Che)
[yes to Che]
Mr Cohn-Bendit is the object of
a ban in France
Mr Cohn-Bendit, the leader of the 22
March student movement
is the object of a ban in France, taken
by the Minister of the Interior
He is considered 'undesirable in France'
and will be turned away if he turns up
at a border post. Mr Cohn-Bendit,
who went to Berlin
where he took the floor Tuesday night
at the grand amphitheater
of the Free University, must participate
Wednesday in a meeting in Amsterdam
Mr Cohn-Bendit is known to be
a German national.
We
are
all
undesirables
We
are
all
German Jews
undesirables
... the truth is revolutionary
all
we
We occupy your factory
Comrades, if all the people
did as we did
German Jews
Renault at Flins
My country hurts
C is for
unemployment (chomage)
F is for
armaments (force de frappe)
K is for
kepi (French army)
I is for
(gold) idol
O is for
orders by King Charles:
Dismantling of Social Security
M is for
lies (mensonges): profits, the
social year..prosperity..working capital
without me ... civil war!
J is for youth (jeunesse)
Unpaid labour at 14 years old
We learn nothing. The boss does not
give us a penny. It's two years lost.
Unemployed at the age of Romeo
We have outdoor boots
H is for housing
S is for segregation
5000 km to sweep
Who creates?
Why?
Low, infernal cadences
E is for
Students
Teachers
Explosion
Enthusiasm
Already ten days of joy
P
Life first
U
Factories, Universities, Unions
Yes, occupy the factories
Students, workers, unite
1968 is for 1936
Happiness
exists / hours
Hours (apply the 8 hour day)
How to vote against bolshevism
(Commandant) Robin (of the) OAS [which
violently fought Algerian independence]
64-68 - 2000 fascists freed
10 years earlier
CDR (Committee for the Defence of the Republic)
OAS watchfulness
Marc Lanvin (young man):
assassinated by the CDR
Curutchet OAS killer
(the four generals who led the attempted
1961 coup, the Algiers Putsch)
The future
OAS=SS. Unity without exclusivity
No to dictatorship and fascism
No to war and misery
Unite against the OAS
But the fight continues
Whatever the cops think
Whatever the fascists think
Whatever the 'elect' think
France resurrects
1. Splinter groups
Drive them back
to their
to their nothingness
2. Tired of Utopias
Power is everybody's business. The state
and the employers are hiding behind:
Pack
things
At the service of Poulidor and Pingeons
(Tour de France)
The price we pay for being
"terribly English"
3. leave
Garden party a Malignon: the UDR
deputies know ...
leave the politics
... to
The nation included
... experts
4. The true revolution
It is the first injunction
Freedom of labour
Peugeot Bosses Police 2 Deaths
It is
It is freedom
of ex-
political expression
5. The new order is
progress
technical (progress)
For the young
(more products)
For France, a real national revolution
In
theory
the crucial task
ahead of the lenghty youth market
in theory the crucial task of
the movement
communist
It is. It is
(What to do?)
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is
(Workers, students, one fight)
... to develop
with all the rigour
with all the rigor
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is to develop
with all the rigor and audacity required
(unchanged)
... the (science)
the new philosophy
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is to develop
with all the rigor and audacity required
the science and the new philosophy
new
new year
by linking them
to the exigencies
and
inventions
In theory, the crucial task
of the communist movement
is to develop, with all the rigor and
audacity required, the science
and the new philosophy by linking
them to the exigencies and inventions
of the practice
of the struggle
of classes
revolutionary
In theory, the crucial task of the
communist movement is to develop
with all the rigor and audacity required
the science and the new philosophy
by linking them to the exigencies
and inventions
of the revolutionary classes' struggle
Wrinkle/line/ripple
strike committee
May
The University as a Red Base.
Disinformation comes home
Comrades, Workers! Against the
employers' and police provocations...
May
The walls
May
The words
student
power
worker
student
power
worker
student
power
worker
dream
strike
dream
strike
dream
strike
revolution
May
It's the same power
Face the repression
All united in the strike
Cellophane (the factory)
where the striek continues
Broaden the action
It's the same struggle
It is
who
It is they who
and
and us
and us who
You
we
we
and here
and this, why not?
Free expression