WIND FROM THE EAST
Symposium
A delirious project that could only have been conceived in the wake of 1968, WIND FROM THE EAST started life as a collaboration between Godard, anarchist militant Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the actor Gian-Maria Volonté to make a socialist Western, financed by an Italian leftist millionaire. During a fractious shoot, however, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin wrested control of the production – giving birth to the “Groupe Dziga Vertov” in the process – and used the generic markers of the Western as a pretext for a theoretical essay on revolutionary strategy and the illusory nature of cinematic realism.
A delirious project that could only have been conceived in the wake of 1968, WIND FROM THE EAST started life as a collaboration between Godard, anarchist militant Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the actor Gian-Maria Volonté to make a socialist Western, financed by an Italian leftist millionaire. During a fractious shoot, however, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin wrested control of the production – giving birth to the “Groupe Dziga Vertov” in the process – and used the generic markers of the Western as a pretext for a theoretical essay on revolutionary strategy and the illusory nature of cinematic realism.
