Screening and discussion
Masterclasse by Joanna Hogg
18 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023
The event is over
The film director looks back on her career and creative processes during a masterclass led by Éva Markovits, who programmed the retrospective. Attended by students from the French film school La Fémis and La Sorbonne university, the session kicks off with a screening of Joanna Hogg’s thesis short, Caprice.
Screening to start the masterclass
Joanna Hogg, Caprice, Great Britain, 1986, 28 min, colour and B&W, DCP, original version with French subtitles
With Tilda Swinton, Patti Palladin, Bruce Payne and Rachel Byrd
A phantasmagorical world opens up to a young woman named Lucky, behind the scenes at her favourite haute couture magazine. Like Alice in Wonderland, she slips from enchantment into disillusion.
“Caprice was made 35 years ago, it’s rather strange for me to look back at a film I made so long ago. And yet I do feel true affection for my thesis short, which was like a personal renaissance. It was a culmination of so many ideas, dreams and anxieties that the 20-year-old me used to nurture. My influences range from Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her to Charles Vidor’s Cover Girl, not forgetting Fellini’s White Sheik, Tex Avery cartoons and Scorsese’s King of Comedy. I was brimming with passion and had absolute faith in the story, it just had to be told. It centres on the pressure advertising and fashion magazines exert on young women to dictate how they behave and dress.”
Joanna Hogg, The Cinema Club, 2021
Where
Petite salle, level –1
When
18 Mar 2023
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