Editing Paris Commune (section)

==== Film ====
* Of the numerous films set in the Commune, particularly notable is ''{{lang|fr|[[La Commune (Paris, 1871)|La Commune]]}}'', which runs for 5¾ hours and was directed by [[Peter Watkins]]. It was made in [[Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis|Montreuil]] in 2000, and as with most of Watkins' films uses ordinary people instead of actors to create a documentary effect. Some participants were the children of cast members from Watkin's masterpiece ''[[Edvard Munch (film)|Edvard Munch]]'' (1974). ''La Commune'' was shot on film by Odd-Geir Saether, the Norwegian cameraman from the Munch film.
* Soviet filmmakers [[Grigori Kozintsev]] and [[Leonid Trauberg]] wrote and directed, in 1929, the silent film ''[[The New Babylon]]'' ({{lang|ru|Novyy Vavilon}}) about the Paris Commune. It features [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]'s first film score.
* British filmmaker [[Ken McMullen (film director)|Ken McMullen]] has made two films directly or indirectly influenced by the Commune: ''[[Ghost Dance (film)|Ghost Dance]]'' (1983) and ''[[1871 (film)|1871]]'' (1990). ''Ghost Dance'' includes an appearance by French philosopher [[Jacques Derrida]].
* Moinak Biswas, Indian filmmaker and professor of [[film studies]] at [[Jadavpur University]] in [[Kolkata]], showed a split-screen entry connecting the work of 1970s Left filmmaker [[Ritwik Ghatak]] with contemporary shots of the Paris Commune at the 11th [[Shanghai Biennale]] (2016).<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/DwxZGL4_nto Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200830011128/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwxZGL4_nto&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |title='জ্বলন্ত শব্দের পথ' (Across the Burning Track) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwxZGL4_nto |website=[[YouTube]]| date=5 July 2019 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>