Year 01

Armed only with the slogan “Quit Everything,” the people of France walk out of their jobs—and never return. Labor and money are abolished. Production stops. Consumption stops. Markets stop. Governments stop. Now people work only to fulfill their needs, and use only what they need. Consumer goods are museum pieces, the earth is a common land and garden, and wage labor is a barbaric, faintly remembered past.

Somewhere, counter-revolutionaries gather stacks of money, now useless paper, hoping one day it will again be charged with significance and elevate them to the status of lords. This is a report from the first year of a liberated world!

Jacques Doillon’s YEAR 01 (with contributing pieces by Left Bank luminaries Alain Resnais and Jean Rouch) is a serio-comic Utopia, a series of imaginative sketches based on the philosophies behind the tumult of May ’68 and the Situationist International. Imagine a future!