Cinéma du Réel
The 32th (!) edition of the festival in Paris takes place March 18-30. Both bloggers of this site will be there to report in Danish and English. Here is an overview of what the programme includes, taken from the site of the festival, and signed by its director Javier Packer-Comyn.
The 2010 Cinéma du Réel programme: International Competition / First Films / French Panorama. Some forty international and French films that have mostly never been screened, with particular focus on the films’ documentary writing and ethics. Encounters and debates with the invited filmmakers. And this year, for the first time, the First Films section focusing exclusively on first works.The Dedication: Albert Maysles. Revisiting the works of Albert Maysles (PHOTO), a landmark figure of the 1960s’ American direct cinema and the musical documentary (with his late brother, David). This tremendously vivacious 82-year-old will propose a retrospective based on the first part of his work, as well as a master class. Both of us. Both of us plunges us into the creative process of filmmakers working in tandem, in pairs, in partnership, in couples. We take a look at how various individual films are made and try to understand how this singular, yet double, entity comes to light in their filmmaking. With films by Yervant Gianikian/Angela Ricci-Lucchi, Jean-Luc Godard/Anne-Marie Miéville, Yann Le Masson/Bénédicte Deswarte, Raymonde Carasco/Régis Hébraud.
Exploring Documentary – forms of film pamphlets. This year Exploring Documentary focuses on a subversive film form that is all too little known, the film pamphlet. Music in motion. A programming built around several major innovative works that explore the relationship between the documentary, music and the human body. How to film music, the myth of the singer, the stage or act of creation… With films by Amos Gitai (A Brand New Day), Dan Graham (Rock my Religion), Derek Jarman with his clips, Peter Whitehead (Pink Floyd London ‘66-67) or Mathieu Boogaerts (Le Journal de Michel).
Icarus the filmmaker (or the story of the eye’s vertical movement). The theme of this seminar is the history of the aerial view from photography to satellite images, including cinema. Workshop with Xiaolu Gou This young Chinese filmmaker and author lives in the UK (Golden Leopard at the last Locarno film festival). In her works horizons broaden and different creative fields meet up. The film redefines its own geography, changes the vocabulary, and oscillates between fiction, documentary and literature. With more to come!
