Cinéma du Réel 2011
Loyal readers of filmkommentaren will know that both bloggers have a faible for this yearly festival in Paris – next year the dates are March 24 – April 5. Today the programme was announced in overall terms and the appetite to go there came back immediately. Here is a copy of the text that tells what to expect:
International Competition / First Films / French Contre-Champs / Shorts A selection of some forty international and French films that have in the main never been screened, with special focus on the films’ documentary writing and ethics. Encounters and debates with their filmmakers.
Dedication and workshop : Andrei Ujica The Rumanian filmmaker revisits his Trilogy centred on the end of the Communist world : The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010) / Out of the Present (1995) / Videograms of a Revolution, with Harun Farocki (1992).
Dedication and workshop : Gianfranco Rosi A regular visitor to the festival (awarded the 2009 Grand Prix for his film Below Sea Level), Gianfranco Rosi
will present his three films Boatman (1993), Below Sea Level (2008) and El Sicario (2010), and discuss his past, current and future work in an exceptional workshop session.
America is Hard to See As early as the 1920s, a stream of politically engaged documentary films has endeavoured to portray another vision of America, the recession, the marginalised… With the first Newsreel editions, as well as films by Cartier Bresson, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, Ralph Steiner, Sidney Meyers…
Exploring Documentary : the documentary poem The documentary poem is often associated with introspection. Here, it is a poetic journey turned to the outside world, and the critical social view proposed… a kind of civic poetry. With films by Rudy Burkhardt, Pierre Clementi, Ken Brown…
The Tool Box : thoughts about the camera The development of movie camera technology and its influence on documentary filmmaking.
Those Invisible : a treasured absence Filmmakers, critics and film historians look back on their passion and talk to us about a film that is rare, invisible, lost, legendary, imaginary, destroyed or quite simply banned. With the screening of several rare films…
Ecoute voir ! : Hors scène / Off track ’Ecoute Voir !’ continues to explore the ties between the documentary and music, after a first edition in 2010 focusing on the relationship with the human body. This year, the theme is the offstage dimension of music, what happens outside of performances and concerts. From the writing to rehearsals, experimentation, the tour diary… as well as innovative visual research linking music and film.
Installation : The Owl’s Legacy Presentation, staging and screening of The Owl’s Legacy, a film composition by Chris Marker (1989), critics and film historians look back on their passion and talk to us about
>>> And also… Two dedications (Richard Leacock and Leo Hurwitz), news from our filmmaker friends, a plunge into the festival’s memory (20th anniversary of the Prix Marcorelles, classics), a children’s afternoon documentary party, days for professionals, school workshops, daily discussions-encounters…
