Detruisez-vous is a ‘primitive’ film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It’s the first Zanzibar film (and predates the very naming of the movement), an attempt to make a film which defies the rules of production, the production line of commerce
Direction
Bard literally destroys film grammar as political act.
Production
Shot on scavenged stock, zero budget, maximum ideological chaos.
Director
Serge Bard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Zanzibar films were named retroactively after the 1968 revolution failed—this was made in that brief window when destruction felt like creation.
Caroline de Bendern was literal aristocracy (Montmartre castle) funding anti-capitalist cinema with her inheritance.
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