France | 1977 | 240 mins (in 2 parts) | b&w – col | doc | dir. Chris Marker
From his writings of the late 1940s to the installations of today, Marker was among the first postwar multi-media creators to combine probing political essays with poetic forms of audiovisual art. Le Fond... is Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60s and 70s: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. Released in France in 1978, and 're-actualized' by the director fifteen years later (after the fall of the Soviet Union), Marker's film takes the ‘long view’ of a brief but turbulent historical period.
Introduced by Chris Darke with an interval between the two parts.
