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Jean-Pierre Gorin
After the events of May 1968, when the city of Paris saw total upheaval in
response to the "authoritarian de Gaulle republic", and Godard's professional
objective was reconsidered, he began to collaborate with like-minded individuals
in the filmmaking arena. The most notable of these collaborations was with a
young Maoist student, Jean-Pierre Gorin, who displayed a passion for cinema that
grabbed Godard’s attention.
Between 1968 and 1973, Godard and Gorin collaborated to make a total of five
films with strong Maoist messages. The most prominent film from the
collaboration was Tout va bien, which starred Jane Fonda and Yves Montand, at
the time very big stars.
Jean-Pierre Gorin now teaches the study of film at the University of California,
San Diego and includes many of Godard's works.
The Dziga Vertov group
The small group of Maoists that Godard had brought together, which included
Gorin, adopted the name Dziga Vertov Group. Godard had a specific interest in
Vertov, a filmmaker and contemporary of both the great Soviet montage theorists,
as well as the Russian constructivist and avant-garde artists such as Alexander
Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin. Part of Godard’s evidently political shift after
May 1968 was toward a proactive participation in the class struggle. Vertov’s
films, particularly his most famous work, Man with the Movie Camera (1929), were
very much centered on class struggles.
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