Far From Vietnam
Nov 23, 2013
(Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnés Varda, 1967, France, DCP, 115 min)
Special film introduction and post-screening discussion with writer/programmer Philip Wohlstetter!
Organized and edited by Chris Marker, Far From Vietnam is an epic 1967 collaboration and essay collage among a handful of cinema’s giants: Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais and Agnés Varda. It was made in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam (per Marker's narration: "to affirm, by the exercise of their craft, their solidarity with the Vietnamese people in struggle against aggression").
"Rich with humanity and indignation...this is a film nobody should miss. It mirrors both the horror and the hope of our times." —Sanity Magazine
- Don't miss our post screening discussions with local writer and film programmer Philip Wohlstetter, co-founder of the Cinematheque at the Grand Illusion and curator of Seattle's first Chris Marker retrospective in the 1980s (along with tributes to Godard, Alexander Kluge and Third World Musicals).