Lecciones audiovisuales de marxismo. El Grupo Dziga Vertov y el cine políticamente político

Abstract

When Jean-Luc Godard wonders what cinema is, it makes two possible answers. The answer from Hollywood, who understands that cinema is money. And the response of Soviet cinema, which assumes that cinema is useful to observe and think collective phenomena. Godard, after the irruption of May of the 68, decides to leave mainstream cinema to meet with Jean Pierre Gorin, Armand Marco and Jean Henri Roger, and together form the Dziga Vertov Group. The idea of the collective is to start an alternative way to thematic and commercial forms: the way of the political cinema or, to be more precise, the politically forged political cinema. The objective of the article is to analyze three audiovisual productions of the Dziga Vertov Group through the conceptual architecture forged by the author of Das Kapital. In the analysis of some sequences of Pravda (1969), Lotte in Italia (1969) and British Sounds (1969) we will discover some of the lessons of Marxism through the different audiovisual strategies that forge Godard and his companions