Be Seeing You

Be Seeing You (À Bientôt j’espère)
1967, 45’
Directors: Chris Marker, Mario Marret
Language: French
Screening: Friday, 8 February, 13.00, Thursday, 14 February, 13.00, Saturday, 16 February, 13.00

The events of May 1968 in France are prefigured by a major strike in March 1967 at a textile plant in Besançon, France. The workers demand not just better wages and working conditions but larger social and political changes. Marker takes his camera to this plant to document the strike.