Break Out (1970)

A selfcriticism selfanalysis in which Macdonald struggles with his own status as a selfdeclared armchair radical Wondering what real effect making films and attending demonstrations can have he wrestles with the idea of violence and examines his own excuses protecting his family protecting his life for not being radical as opposed to talking radical In a section that introduces the letter board and bricolage technique that would become so prominent in his filmography he lays out a radical 12point program for the attainment of a more decent society a coda proposes a halfway point between armchair radicalism and bombthrowing