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Classe de lutte

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7.3
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Original title
Classe de lutte
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Running time
40 min.
Country
France France
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Documentary
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Genre
Documentary | Half-length Film
Synopsis
Classe de Lutte arranges images, music and voices that speak for themselves and unfold their signification, without following an explanatory logic. The images do not “comment on” or “give reasons for” the emancipation of the working class; instead, their very existence is a movement of subjectivation understood as Suzanne’s disidentification from the role of a working, speechless and thus both unrepresentable and inactive woman. In this sense, Classe de Lutte constitutes a new political stage, in which there is a collapse of the normative distribution of the roles and places within the sensible that determines that the workers work, the intellectuals think and the filmmakers make films. The film also avoids any transcendent voice, and thus participates in the new “culture or politics of self-description” that breaks both with the hierarchies of traditional narrative representation and the traditional position of the intellectual speaking for others. It is thus a form of aesthetic realism. Aesthetic realism understood as an immanent representation does not aim at being a “better” representation, but at the collapsing of the hierarchies of representation, and because of that it maintains the uncertainty of the distinction between documentary and fictional representation. The forms of aesthetic realism, as post-representative forms, do not show a reality “as it really is”, but rather refer to the impossibility of doing so. However, this impossibility does not give way to the end of representation, but to a new politics of representation: an aesthetic politics of representation. The challenge of the notion of aesthetic realism is thus that it points to the impossible existence of an objective image and of an objective reality: Because reality and images are always negotiated and configured anew in the struggle between different strategies of distribution of roles and spaces or of different partitions of the sensible. (Maria Muhle, Aesthetic realism and subjectivation. From Chris Marker to the Medvedkin Groups)
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User history
Classe de lutte
1969
Chris Marker, Groupe Medvedkine de Besançon
7.3
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