Film: A Grin Without a Cat: Scenes of the Third World War 1967-1977

bristol | media and culture | event notice Thursday June 24, 2010 11:44 by Alice - Arnolfini

Saturday 7 August 7.30pm

Marker presents a vivid picture of world unrest.

A Grin Without a Cat

Sat 7 Aug 7.30pm

Re-editing an enormous quantity of film, much of it taken under dangerous conditions during the activist struggles of the 1960s and early '70s, Marker - who always thinks about the condition of film as memory - presents a vivid picture of world unrest, denouncing 'governments, who would like us to have no memory'.

Dir. Chris Marker, France, 1977, 3h, Subtitled

This film is also part of Known Unknowns, a film season which explores the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them; it explores the implications of the camera as an agent of change, something which can deceive and beguile as easily as it can record.