| LE JOLI MAI, Friday, July 29, 7pm, 18+
In Le Joli Mai, Chris Marker and his camera operator Pierre Lhomme shot 55 hours of footage interviewing random people on the streets of Paris. The questions, asked by the unseen Marker, range from their personal lives, as well as social and political issues of relevance at that time. As he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasted and juxtaposed a variety of lives with his signature commentary.
Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique...The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker." July 29 is the birth and death of Chris Marker.
More on La Joli Mai: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/chris-marker-and-pierre-lhommes-le-joli-mai |
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