The LIP Factor, Imagination in Power Print
Sat 3 May
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may 68  All Power to the Imagination!

The LIP Factor, Imagination in Power / LIP, l'Imagination au Pouvoir

France | 2007 | b&w - col | 118 mins | doc | dir. Christian Rouaud

This feature-length documentary looks at the strike at the LIP works in Besançon, the most emblematic workers' strike of the post-'68 period - an incredible struggle that lasted several years, mobilised whole crowds in France and Europe and launched numerous illegal actions without ever resorting to violence.

Sat 3 may | 3.00pm | in English | video screening | £5, conc. £3

 
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