Thierry kuntzel biography of christopher

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Friday, March 15, 2013 – 5:30pm – Saturday, March 16, 2013 – 6:00pm

Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Things That Quicken the Heart | Chris Marker: A Symposium

The symposium will explore the work of the late French filmmaker Chris Marker, who passed away in July 2012 at the age of 91 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and inventive media artists in the history of cinema. Working continually since the 1940s, Marker directed some of the most important films in the history of world cinema, including La jetée (1962), A Grin without a Cat (1997), Sans Soleil (1982), and multi-media projects Level 5 (1996) and Immemory (1998, 2008).

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Participants include:

Raymond Bellour, researcher, writer, Director of research emeritus at C.N.R.S., Paris, is interested by literature, romantic (the Brontës, Ecrits de jeunesse, 1972; Alexandre Dumas, Mademoiselle Guillotine, 1990), and contemporary (Henri Michaux, 1965, edition of his complete works in “La Pléïade”, vol. I, 1998, vol. II,  2001, vol. III, 2004, Lire Michaux, 2011) and by cinema (Le Western, 1966, L’Analyse du film, 1979, Le Corps du cinéma. Hypnoses, émotions, animalités, 2009)

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Beyond six rivers and three mountain ranges rises Zora, a city that no one, having seen it, can forget. But not because, like other memorable cities, it leaves an unusual image in your recollections. Zora has the quality of remaining in your memory point by point, in its succession of streets, of houses along the streets, and of doors and windows in the houses, though nothing in them possesses a special beauty or rarity …

An Act of Love
In the writing of Thierry Kuntzel, most notably his extraordinary piece on The Most Dangerous Game[1], the act of writing sets up a parameter not so much to deconstruct but to displace a film from its own time and space. Another series of images is created which, through the time-delay induced by analysis, is now alive and free from its original narrative, appearing as the ‘perfect’ film; symmetrical, pure, liberated from any ideological framework. Postulating, camouflaging itself as a true reading of the film, these previously ‘repressed’ fragments acquire a special status. Not only do they represent a ‘hidden’ other film, a new film unaware of its own potential movement and structure, but their permutative possibilities seem endless.

The irony and frustration of the writer, however, is that the initial seduction process, the unspoken