“May ‘68 in ‘78” BY Michel Auder

2024 · color · USA · 40’ · In competition

In 1968, photographer and filmmaker Michel Auder documented the revolts in Paris, but lost the footage shortly after when he moved to the United States. Exactly ten years after the events, Auder restored these cinematic memories with MAY ’68 IN ’78 by entering into dialogue with Parisian artists, workers, a policeman, and a saleswoman, interviewing them about their personal memories of May 1968.

THE DIRECTOR | MICHEL AUDER

Michel Auder is a French artist who has been living in New York since 1969—after a spell in Paris, where he began to make films. Working from New York and internationally, he authored more than 550 works, using all moving image technologies of the times and all means available. His first video camera was Sony PortaPak and recently he has been filming mostly with his phone. Auder keeps busy with his immense and growing archive of video recordings and still images, editing timeless and radically contemporary works that mix memories of revisited visual material with desire for making new pictures. He showed his works in cinema screenings and exhibitions. Among his recent shows, Auder’s multi-channel video and sound installation The Course of Empire was commissioned by documenta 14 (2017); he held a solo show Dreams That Money Cant Buy at Karma International in Zurich (2021).