A very implicit suggestion of mine, perhaps because I've just seen it
for the first time, is Werner Herzog's amazing "Even Dwarves Started
Small" (1970). This film was attacked, according to Herzog on the DVD
commentary, by dogmatic Leftists for "mocking" the revolution. In terms
of the influence of Buchner on Herzog (cf. Kaspar Hauser (1974),
Woyzeck (1979), etc.) the film is more "metaphysical" (for me) in its
considerations of cruelty and power. However, this is not to the
exclusion of the political if we think of Buchner's Danton's Death - in
which the revolutionary moment opens a void of political/metaphysical
nihilism - and also the possibility of a more sumptuary politics.
Another "implicit" suggestion would be the work of George A. Romero in
films like Knightriders (1981) and Dawn of the Dead (1978), which seem
to me to be about the problem of the revolutionary/counter-cultural
group holding (or struggling to hold) fidelity (in Badiou's terms) to
the revolutionary event, eg. 68 etc.
More explicit suggestions, which I'm sure others know better than me
would, obviously, include the work of Godard and Antonioni's Zabriskie
Point (1970).
Ben
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