settima

Maoism

女篮五号 [Nü lan wu hao / Woman Basketball Player No. 5] (Jin Xie, 1957)

Apr

7

March Madness

女篮五号 (1957)

Tense moments during the match. DPs: Shaofen Huang & Xilin Shen.

Basketball: the final day of March Madness

 

La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se faire [La chinoise] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

Mar

19

Howard University Protest

La chinoise (1967)

Yvonne (Juliet Berto) holed up behind piles of Mao's Little Red Book, wielding a machine gun. DP: Raoul Coutard.

Student activism to commemorate the March 19 1968 Howard University Protest

“One must confront vague ideas with clear images”

– slogan on a wall

Five Maoist students theorise, then practice a radical overthrow via terrorism.

 

Loosely based on Dostoyevsky's Бѣсы [The Possessed] (1871–72).