Vues de mai

Presented by Federico Lancialonga, Doctor of Film Studies and teacher at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL).

Vues de mai a film directed by Federico Lancialonga based on rediscovered  footage at the Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico (AAMOD) in Rome and subsequently deposited at the the Cinémathèque française. Shot in May-June 1968 by the collectives États Généraux du cinéma, ARC and SLON, these films were sent to Italy to escape police control and laboratory strikes, and remained unseen for nearly fifty years. Now digitized and restored, they form the basis of a preliminary edit, which will be supplemented by audio recordings of testimonies from the filmmakers who were the operators.

Restoration: Cinémathèque française.

Non-profit organization, the French Cinémathèque was founded in 1936 by Henri Langlois, Georges Franju, Jean Mitry, and Paul-Auguste Harlé. Its mission is to collect, preserve, and screen films of all origins and formats in order to contribute to the development of film culture. It also collects objects and documents related to the history of cinema, including scripts, posters, photographs, equipment, and costumes. Now one of the most famous archives in the world, it has been housed since 2005 in a building designed by Frank Gehry at 51 rue de Bercy in Paris.