Arquivo

Spearheaded and edited by Chris Marker under the aegis of the French activist group SLON (Société pour le Lancement des Oeuvres Nouvelles), the rarely screened agitprop feature film Loin du Viêtnam is a multivocal work that uses both fact and fiction to counter both U.S. propaganda and the mainstream media coverage of the war. With contributions from Marker, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, and Claude Lelouch, this searing essayistic manifesto is not only a passionate and concerted protest against the American war in Vietnam, but a multifaceted exploration of the global impact of war, cultural indifference, and selective memory.