L’enfance de l’art / 2 x 50 ans de cinéma français

20 October, 2018 - 17:00
Cinematek, Brussels

An initiative of CINEMATEK and Courtisane, in collaboration with Le Service de Culture cinématographique (SCC).

On the occasion of this program, Courtisane, Sabzian and Cinematek have collected a series of writings and interviews in a small-edition publication (French/English).

L’enfance de l’art

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
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CH, FR
,
1990
,
video
,
colour
,
8'

A woman, a child, a man and another child, the noise of bombs falling and of planes passing by, in a urban landscape destroyed by war. A man dies before he had the time to write on the back of Delacroix’ La liberté guidant le peuple: that could be the plot, just the enigma consisting of a missing word. A question opened before death, resolved by a child, the shadow and spirit of Gavroche.

Episode of Comment vont les enfants?, commissioned by UNICEF.

 

French spoken

2 x 50 ans de cinéma français

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
,
UK, CH, FR
,
1995
,
video
,
colour
,
50'

Episode of the series The Century of cinema, commissioned by the British Film Institute.

“Why pay homage to cinema? Hasn’t it been celebrated enough, or is that no longer so? I don’t like commemorations. I make cinematographic (his)stories because I've occupied this terrain a bitand because nobody ever told me what I was doing there. Honoring implies, in a sense, to exaggerate the value of something that has been neglected or forgotten, as a way to make up for it in an honorable way. Understand me well, I have nothing against festivities, but if cinema were to be what it should have been, it would be just fine without them."

 

French spoken