Hélène Chatelain

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his writings, Soviet propaganda films, reactions of workers today and the memory he has left in the hearts & minds of his people in Gouliaïpolié, in the east of the Ukraine.

The only film to emerge from France’s Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons was this collaboration between filmmaker and writer Hélène Châtelain and her colleague René Lefort which extends the GIP initiative to end the silence around incarceration in France. Blocked from shooting inside prison walls, the filmmakers ask former inmates, guards and bystanders to describe their experience with the institution. Their feature is a crucial part of a broad constellation of projects – a post-68 vérité wave – in which women, immigrants, factory workers, and other marginalized groups began using film and video to analyze their position within global struggles. Incarceration is one factor that ties these struggles together: “None of us is sure to escape prison,” Foucault wrote in the GIP manifesto, “Today less than ever.”

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.

「ベトナムから遠く離れて」など、主に記録映画を活動の場としヌーヴェル・ヴァーグの中でも特異な位置を占める作家C・マルケルが全編スチール・カットで撮った中編SF映画の佳作。人類が絶滅した未来からその原因となった出来事を探るため過去にタイムトラベルした男は一人の女性と知り合う。何故か見覚えのあるその女性と行動を共にするうち、彼は幼いころ飛行場で彼女を見たことを思い出す。二人はやがて全ての出来事の根源となる飛行場へとたどり着くのだが……。