Projection and discussion
Marguerite Duras
07 Sep 2022
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Marguerite Duras defended a cinema of destruction: “If cinema is in decline, that’s down to cinema. If the world is in decline, that’s down to politics” (The Lorry, 1977). This screening brings together three of her short films, completed in 1979 after Le Navire Night (1978), from which they include a few cut shots
The three films, Césarée, The Negative Hands and the episode Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), are conserved in the museum’s collections and are emblematic of the formal radicality sought by the writer, the accomplishment of a corpus of work characterised, in the words of François Bovier and Serge Margel, by “a process of erasure and rewriting, of negation and resumption, of rejection and reuse”.
Session presented by François Bovier and Serge Margel, editors of Le cinéma que je fais. Écrits et entretiens (P.O.L, 2021), a collection of writings by Marguerite Duras that assembles, for the first time, the author’s writings about her films (nineteen, made between 1966 and 1985) and work as a filmmaker, as well as the most important interviews she gave on the subject.
Marguerite Duras, Césarée, 1979, 35 mm, colour, sound, 11 min
Marguerite Duras, The Negative Hands, 1979, 35 mm, colour, sound, 14 min
Marguerite Duras, Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), 1979, 35 mm colour, sound, 35 min
Acknowledgments: Laurence Fruitier, Géraldine Gajewski, Laurent Lacrouts (Centre Pompidou Bookshop), Frédéric Boyer, Jean-Paul Hirsch (P.O.L).
When
7pm - 9pm
Where
Artists/personalities
Marguerite Duras, Césarée, 1979. Achat en 2003 (Photogrammes)
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