Humanities on the Edge Preview: João Moreira Salles’ "No Intenso Agora" ("In the Inte
Continuing the theme of this academic year’s Humanities on the Edge speakers, João Moreira Salles addresses images and aftermath of revolution in his documentary film No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now). The film uses archival found footage--as well as footage taken by Salles’s own mother on a tour through Maoist China in 1966--in order to explore the many faces of revolution in the late 1960s, and particularly the 1968 revolutionaries of Paris and Prague. In his review of