A Grin Without a Cat (Le fond de l'air est rouge)

Part 1: Fragile Hands - Wednesday 13 February

Part 2: Severed Hands - Monday 18 February

A Grin without a Cat (its title refers to Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat) is Marker’s magnum opus: a three-hour overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Marker interweaves footage from Vietnam War and the anti-war protests in the US, May ’68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels comprise the basic materials of this major fresco, which concludes with the following credit: "The true authors of this film are the countless cameramen, technical operators, witnesses and activists whose work is constantly pitted against that of the powers that be, who would like us to have no memory".

Director: Chris Marker
Writer: Chris Marker
Runtime: 90 min
Genre: Documentary
Language: French, Spanish, English, German
Subtitles: English
Production Year: 1977