Live Musical Soundtrack by UC Berkeley Student DJs!
Presented with the BAM/PFA Student Committee

(Zéro de conduite). What better film for an assault by young DJs than this irreverent glimpse of a student revolt brewing inside a boarding school? This is one of only two features made by Jean Vigo, who died at age twenty-nine, but who managed to create a personal cinema of ferocious visual invention. Told from the perspective of the students, whose innate unruliness is at odds with their tyrannical tutors, Vigo's vivid and uncompromising rendering of a boys' school is filled with adults in grotesque caricature who represent the stifling forces of socialization. Central to the student revolt is a poetically executed pillow fight in which the youthful jubilation is exquisitely matched by Vigo's liberated imagemaking, a surreal procession of floating feathers and anarchic upheaval. Its scathing account of French education got the film banned for almost fifteen years, and you can see why-Vigo never did anything by the book.