Primaries A Turning Point in Lunatic China 123 Four

PRIMARIES is a simple film which merely establishes a definition of politics Its narrative moves in paragraph blocks with each sentence accompanied by different pictures of a young womans hands feet torso face A TURNING POINT IN LUNATIC CHINA provides a critique of the methods of communication employed by my fellow Leftists The ritualistic posturing and sloganeering I had used myself and seen in action in Chicago and San Francisco State the seizing of exotic foreign figures Mao Che and ideological rhetoric SDS debates on Stalinismall struck me as mistaken and useless TURNING POINT initiates a conscious probing of the means and techniques of mass communication particularly film 1 2 3 FOUR delivers a critique from within of the ideologies of the counterculture It provides no answers but rather it allows the internal dynamics of the left generate its own questions