Wind from the East (1969)
- Original title
- Le Vent d'est
- Directed by
- Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- 14+
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of radical filmmakers in 1970 uses a Western genre setting to question traditional filmmaking and political storytelling. The movie breaks standard narrative rules to encourage viewers to think critically about cinema and revolution.
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What happens
Wind from the East (French: Le Vent d'est) is a 1970 film by the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative that, at its core, included Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. As with most films from this period in Godard's career, directing credit was given to the collective and not himself or other individual filmmakers. Of the Dziga Vertov Group films, Wind from the East became particularly notable due to Peter Wollen's influential essay about it: "Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'est." Wollen contends that Wind from the East exemplifies how Brechtian principles of "epic theatre" can be applied to film as "counter cinema." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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