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My Cinema

Date
2023
Publisher
Another Gaze Editions
Format
Monographs
ISBN
978 1 7384609 0 8
Size
14 × 20 cm
Genre
Film/Video
Description

From ‘Le cinéma que je fais’, P.O.L (2021), edited by François Bovier and Serge Margel. Translated by Daniella Shreir. With a foreword by Alice Blackhurst.

Working chronologically through her nineteen films, made between 1966 and 1985, this collection of reflections by Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) includes non-standard press releases, notes to her actors, letters to funders, short essays on themes as provocatively capacious as ‘mothers’ and ‘witches’, as well as some of the most significant interviews she gave about her cinematic and writing practices (with filmmakers and critics including Jacques Rivette, Caroline Champetier and Jean Narboni).

In Duras’s hands, all of these forms turn into a strange, gnomic literature in which the boundary between word and image becomes increasingly blurred and the paradox of creating a cinema that seeks ‘to destroy the cinema’ finds its most potent expression.

Yet, Duras is never concerned only with her own work, or even with the broader project of making cinema: her preoccupations are global, and the global crucially informs her perceptions of the way in which she works. With the audiovisual as a starting point, her encyclopaedic associative powers bring readers into contact with subjects as diverse as the French Communist Party, hippies, Jews, revolutionary love, madness and freedom, across four decades of an oeuvre that is always in simultaneous dialogue with the contemporary moment and world history.

From ‘Le cinéma que je fais’, P.O.L (2021), edited by François Bovier and Serge Margel. Translated by Daniella Shreir. With a foreword by Alice Blackhurst.

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