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In May 1968, demonstrations at the University of Nanterre, triggered a wave of protests across Paris and elsewhere in France, that have loomed in the imaginations of the Western European left. This month, Juliet talks to Mitchell Abidor, author of May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745336947/may-made-me/) about the relationship between the protests and film: how André Malraux's decision to fire Henri Langlois from the Cinemathèque fed into the insurrection; how far the Provos, Lettrists and Situationists influenced the protests; how the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker changed their practice after May '68; and the feminist and queer filmmakers and groups that emerged in its wake. WORKS REFERENCED: FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, Stolen Kisses (1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCELURpFlrs HERBERT MARCUSE, One-Dimensional Man (1964) Provos (Robert Jasper Grootveld) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omb23Qm_RG8 GUY DEBORD, The Society of the Specta