Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

In May 2008 it will have been forty years since student protests broke out in Paris. What’s left of the May 1968 ideology forty years on? Come to Vooruit between the 12th and the 16th of May and find out!

Film – Barbarella
(Roger Vadim, 1968, starring Jane Fonda)

Sex. Love. Freedom. Happiness. Barbarella is most memorable for the way it broke taboos and mocked sixties ideals.

Jane Fonda plays the voluptuous Barbarella who is ordered by the president of the earth to save the universe from evil scientist Durand Durand. On her journey she meets strange creatures like the angel Pygan (John Philip Law) and professor Ping (Marcel Marceau) who help her, usually in exchange for pleasure.

Documentary – Studentrevolte Gent ’69 (VPRO)

The VPRO (Dutch National Television) made a report on the student revolt at Ghent University and, more specifically, the occupation of the Blandijn faculty and the expulsion by the riot police. With Jaap Kruithof and others.