Polcats: Debating Chris Marker’s “A Grin Without a Cat”
As a tribute to the great French film essayist Chris Marker, Mark SInker and Rob White discuss the director’s epic history of the New Left.
As a tribute to the great French film essayist Chris Marker, Mark SInker and Rob White discuss the director’s epic history of the New Left.
It’s four decades now since those pretzel-logic days of possibility, transformation, rage, confusion, and defeat—and increasingly as they’re returned to us, it’s in the form that documentary currently prefers to dab at history: the immense flow of available news footage intercut with middle-aged talking heads placing themselves in careful safe accord with what all speaking take to be the story.