A series of tableaux depicting the follies of a group of naive Marxist would-be radicals who think that they want to be revolutionaries, but in the final analysis, what they really want is to be seen wearing berets.

This is not a political film, but one which concerns the trappings of political activism, and the traps therein. Our aim is not to persuade, but rather to present, the lines which link action with idolatry, idolatry with idleness, and radical rage with eroded inner lives. It is, to use the language of Mao, a film about "Contradictions Among the People, " however, it is only a liquid analysis of liquid ideas - the only valid ideas that they are. We do not presume to know, and our only allegiances are to our hearts, our minds, and our guts.

These sentences tried we present as convictions. Lacking for facts, we now offer a fiction: The Shoplifters.

2018. 70 minutes. color, sound.