....cinema can be made through other means, not only through moving
images or sound but through photographs, music, voices, poetry, texts,
performances. And second, the format of the cinétract emerges from
filmmakers in Paris May'68, determined to create a public response or
statement to political crisis in the form of what they called a
cinétract. A cinétract is formulated through the montage of any kind
of visual material including graphics, handwriting, books, postcards,
found footage, quotes, archival documents, black screen. It is
produced with the minimal means post-production. It focuses on the
details or the overlooked margins of an event. It is distributed via
mass-media channels. It directly addresses the viewer and listener. It
is produced anonymously. It resembles a pamphlet. It is made with
no-budget. It is made with affordable or available technology. It is
not a news report. It reveals the position of the author. To make a
cinétract is to find a form that speaks to a sense of necessity. A
cinetract emerges from a concrete situation. It is an act of public
utterance that demands a questioning of the positions of the speaker,
the figure of the addressee, and the question of the right to speak
for whom?'

Source:http://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/6064/roaming-academy---doreen-mende-and-the-otolith-group-present--cinetracts-by-othe