Film-Tract n° 1968 (1968) [N/A]
Written by:
Gérard Fromanger
Jean-Luc Godard
Directed by:
Gérard Fromanger, Jean-Luc Godard
Release Date:
June 1, 1968
Original Title:
Film-Tract n° 1968
Alternate Titles:
Le Rouge: Film-Tract: n° 1968
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
ISKRA
Production Countries:
France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 3
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is thick red paint flows over a tri-color French flag. —Hye Young Min
A still red background. Then a camera movement reveals that such color is a paint moving to a white background. Red is taking over the white. Another movement, this time more distantly, shows us that the red paint is about to spread its presence over a blue background. Now there's a whole image formed and possibly a meaning to it.
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