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Jean-Luc Godard, "Que faire?"(fr) / "What is to be done?“ (en), 1970
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1. We must make political films.

2. We must make films politically.
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3. 1 and 2 are antagonist to each other and belong to two opposing
conceptions of the world.

4. 1 belongs to the idealistic and metaphysical conception of the world.

5. 2 belongs to the Marxist and dialetical conception of the world.

6. Marxism struggles against idealism and
the dialetical against the metaphysical.

7. This struggle is the struggle between the old and the new,
between new ideas and old ones.

8. The social existence of men determines their thought.

9. The struggle between the old and the new is the struggle of classes.

10. To carry out 1 is to remain a being of the bourgeois class.

11. To carry out 2 is to take up a proletarian class position.

12. To carry out 1 is to make descriptions of situations.

13. To carry out 2 is to make concrete analysis of a concrete situation.

14. To carry out 1 is to make BRITISH SOUNDS.

15. To carry out 2 is to struggle for the showing of BRITISH SOUNDS
on English television.

16. To carry out 1 is to understand the law of the objective world
in order to explain the world.

17. To carry out 2 is to understand the law of the objective world
in order to actively transform tat world.

18. To carry out 1 is to describe the wretchedness of the world.

19. To carry out 2 is to show the people in struggle.

20. To carry out 2 is to destroy 1 with the weapons of criticism and
self-criticism.

21. To carry out 1 is to give a complete view of events in the name of
truth in itself.

22. To carry out 2 is not to fabricate over-complete images of the world
in the name of relative truth.

23. To carry out 1 is to say how things are real. (Brecht)

24. To carry out 2 is to say how things really are. (Brecht)

25. To carry out 2 is to edit a film before shooting it,
to make it during filming and to make it after the filming. (Dziga Vertov)

26. To carry out 1 is to dustribute a film before producing it.

27. To carry out 2 is to produce a film before distributing it,
to learn to produce it following the principle that:
it is production which commands distribution
it is politics which commands economy.

28. To carry out 1 is to film students who write: Unity - Students - Workers.

29. To carry out 2 is to know that unity is a struggle of opposites (Lenin)
to know that two are in one.

30. To carry out 2 is to study the contradictions between the classes
with images and sounds.

31. To carry out 2 is to study the contradictions between the relationships
of production and the productive forces.

32. To carry out 2 is to dare to know where one is,
and where one has come from, to know one's place
in the process of production in order then to change it.

33. To carry out 2 is to know the history of revolution struggles
and be determined by them.

34. To carry out 2 is to produce scientific knowledge of revolution struggles
and of their history.

35. To carry out 2 is to know that film making is a secondary activity,
a small screw in the revolution.

36. To carry out 2 is to use images and sounds as teeth and lips to bite with.

37. To carry out 1 is only to open the eyes and the ears.

38. To carry out 2 is to read the reports of comrade Kiang Tsing.

39. To carry out 2 is to be militant.

JEAN-LUC GODARD January 1970
Translated by Mo Teitelbaum

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