Far From Vietnam

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Call Number: DVD FLC-FRE Far
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Title from container and IMDb.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.
Bonus features: bonus film: The sixth side of the Pentagon (La sixième face du pentagone) / by Chris Marker & François Reichenbach (1967, 26 min.); original theatrical trailer.
Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson.
"Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, Far from Vietnam is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam--made, per Marker's narration, 'to affirm, by the exercise of their craft, their solidarity with the Vietnamese people in struggle against aggression.' A truly collaborative effort, the film brings together an array of stylistically disparate contributions, none individually credited, under a unified editorial vision. The elements span documentary footage shot in North and South Vietnam and at anti-war demonstrations in the United States; a fictional vignette and a monologue that dramatize the self-interrogation of European intellectuals; interviews with Fidel Castro and Anne Morrison, widow of Norman Morrison, the Quaker pacifist who burned himself alive on the steps of the White House in 1965; an historical overview of the conflict; reflections from French journalist Michèle Ray; and a range of repurposed media material."--www.icarusfilms.com.
DVD; NTSC, all regions; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; stereo.

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