Mao by Mao
Original title: Mao par Lui-même
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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Crew
- Directors
- Wu Xing-ming, Francis Deron, René Viénet
- Producers
- Helène Vager, Charles-Henri Favrod
- Production
- Les Films des Iles, INA
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Mao by Mao was directed by Wu Xing-ming, Francis Deron, René Viénet.
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Mao by Mao was released in 1977.
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