Échos de Mai

Échos de Mai

Layovers

Sometimes, it is worthwhile to get off the path and stopover in order to dig deeper and reflect. Once every two months, we call upon individuals whose thoughts, approaches, and methods we admire to select five films around a subject of their choice. You want to participate? Feel free to contact us at info@tenk.ca

There have been, over the course of human history, unexpected cracks in the seemingly solid structures of reality that open onto new worlds. Never-before-seen shapes, new schools of thought, and even feelings that sometimes well up, to our great confusion, and leave a strange and unnameable taste in our mouths. These moments don’t appear out of thin air; they are carried by subterranean currents, running for longer than we realize, that suddenly find some breach that allows them to surge from the earth. They are a spectacular thing to see, to experience. They are dramatic. Intense. All-encompassing. Their futures waver, uncertain. We have no way of knowing whether they hold refusal or the promise of more to come. May ’68 was one of those political events that leaves its mark on the global imagination. It was an unheard-of insurrection that drew just as much from the mythic barricades of 1848 as the student movement and anti-capitalist struggles. It quoted from such diverse thinkers as Antonin Artaud, Herbert Marcuse, Guy Debord, Mao, and Che Guevara. Its influence cut across all political allegiances, finding echoes in Québec, the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Japan, the Czech Republic… In the West, there were protests against the Vietnam War, puritanical moral systems, social hypocrisy and an ossified post-war world that was ravaged by consumerism. In the East, there were struggles for humane socialism and a democratization of society.  Our goal with *Echoes of May* was to highlight the events in France specifically.

The films




Past layovers

Here you can find the list of archived films no longer in our active regular programming. Some of them are still available to rental for a supplementary 3$ per film.