Marie-Claire Barnet (ed), Agnès Varda Unlimited: Image, Music, Cinema
In her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda has
gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late
1940s, through being a director celebrated at the Cannes festival (Cléo
de 5 à 7, 1962), to her more ironic self-proclaimed status as a ‘jeune
artiste plasticienne’. She has recently staged mixed-media projects and
exhibitions all over the world from Paris (2006) to Los Angeles
(2013-14) and the latest ‘tour de France’ with JR (2015-16). Agnès Varda
Unlimited: Image, Music, Media reconsiders the legacy and potential of
Varda’s radical tour de force cinématique, as seen in the 22-DVD
‘definitive’ Tout(e) Varda, and her enduring artistic presence. These
essays discuss not just when, but also how and why, Varda’s renewed
artistic forms have ignited with such creative force, and have been so
inspiring an influence. The volume concludes with two remarkable
interviews: one with Varda herself, and another rare contribution from
the leading actress of Cléo de 5 à 7, Corinne Marchand.
http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Agn%C3%A8s-Varda-Unlimited
Calum Watt, Blanchot and the Moving Image: Fascination and Spectatorship
The French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) was a
notoriously reclusive figure who wrote that his life was entirely
devoted to literature. Why then have filmmakers and writers on film
found so much inspiration in Blanchot’s work? Blanchot and the Moving
Image explores a constellation of connections between Blanchot, film and
film theory and draws lines of intellectual influence to show how
Blanchot’s thinking of literature find its way by a kind of displacement
into contemporary philosophical approaches to cinema. Three case studies
examining individual films – by Jean-Luc Godard, Béla Tarr and Gaspar
Noé – draw out how Blanchot’s complex notions of fascination and image
can contribute to theories of spectatorship. The first book-length
treatment of this theme, Blanchot and the Moving Image thus demonstrates
the overlooked importance of Blanchot’s work for understanding
contemporary film and film theory.
http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Blanchot-Moving-Image
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