Wind from the East (1970) by Jean-Luc Godard
Sunday, March 20, 1983, 8:00 pm
Jean-Luc Godard
Wind from the East
1970, 100 min. “Influenced by the Paris events of May, 1968, Godard formed the Dziga-Vertov Group in an attempt to combine cinema theory and practice, or as he put it: ‘to make not political films but rather to make films politically.’ Wind from the East was the first major (and probably most intricate) work produced by the collective. Beginning as a left wing western, the film tries to deal with questions of fiction and representation, and is a radical departure from Godard’s earlier ‘art house’ feature films“ –Jeffrey Skoller.