British Sounds (1970)

British Sounds: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger. An examination of the daily routine at a British auto factory assembly line, set against class-conflict and The Communist Manifesto.

“After taking film to u0026quot;zerou0026quot; with -Le Gai Savoir-, Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group put out several Maoist/Marxist films, including this one. The main idea of British Sounds is exactly the soundtrack; the images are primarily still, with minimal camera movement: mostly tracks and pans.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBritish Sounds is didactic and academic, but not without artistic merit, particularly the use of red and the jump-cutting fists that punch through the British flag repeatedly. The film has six parts, including the famous ten-minute track through an auto assembly line and a four-minute shot of a womanu0026#39;s nude torso; it is also filled with speech, whether itu0026#39;s a text from Engels read aloud or a newscaster talking about the necessities of burning women and children. A real agit-prop film, but, as Godard said about the later -Vladimir and Rosa-, also u0026quot;a time piece.u0026quot;”