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Mao by Mao (1977)

ALL 05/01/1977 (en) Documentary, History 28 Min
  • Release
    05/01/1977
  • Production
    Les Films des Iles, INA
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Mao par Lui-même
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

A film-détournement biography of Mao Tse-tung in which the life of the recently deceased Great Helmsman is told in his own words, using quotes culled from various Red Guard publications. The rise to power of the film's namesake appears as the inevitable outcome of a dialectical logical. Or so the voice-over might lead one to believe. If the usual practice of détourned films is for the soundtrack to undermine the image, here the reverse occasionally takes place. The images critique Mao's words. They show that which, even in the official visual record of the times, the narrative elides. The film is dedicated to Li Yhi Zhe, the nominal author of a famous Democracy Wall critique of the Maoist state.

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  3. Editor



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Mao by Mao (1977) 28 Min

ALL 05/01/1977 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 05/01/1977
  • Production
    Les Films des Iles, INA
  • Original title Mao par Lui-même
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

A film-détournement biography of Mao Tse-tung in which the life of the recently deceased Great Helmsman is told in his own words, using quotes culled from various Red Guard publications. The rise to power of the film's namesake appears as the inevitable outcome of a dialectical logical. Or so the voice-over might lead one to believe. If the usual practice of détourned films is for the soundtrack to undermine the image, here the reverse occasionally takes place. The images critique Mao's words. They show that which, even in the official visual record of the times, the narrative elides. The film is dedicated to Li Yhi Zhe, the nominal author of a famous Democracy Wall critique of the Maoist state.

  1. René Viénet, Wu Xing-ming, Francis Deron

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Charles-Henri Favrod, Helène Vager

    Producer



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