Thursday, June 28, 2007

FILMS ABOUT STILL PHOTOS

This post is related to:
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2007/06/alain-jaubert-will-come-to-bangkok.html
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2007/06/ten-thai-photo-resembling-films.html


The first time I heard the name ALAIN JAUBERT is when I got a free copy of a book called MARGES DE LA PHOTO from Alliance Francaise in Bangkok a few years ago. This free book is marvelous. It has a lot of information about

1.Films about still photos

2.Photo-resembling films

I learned from this book that Alain Jaubert directed some very interesting short films. I have never seen his films, but I hope I have a chance to see them in the future (though I can't attend his film event in Bangkok this early July.)

MARGES DE LA PHOTO is a book and a film program made by Raymond Bellour, Anne Coutinot, and Sylvain Roumette.

Films listed in this book

A. INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE HISTORY

1.INTERIEURS (1982, Gilles Delavaud)

2. RAPHO, HISTOIRE D'UNE FAMILLE (1987, Frederic Mitterand, Patrick Jeudy)

3. LA MEMOIRE EN CHANTANT: LES ANNEES 40 (1988, Patrick Barberis)

4. UNE GENERATION (1982, Philippe Grandrieux)

5. RECITS D'ELLIS ISLAND TRACES (1980, Robert Bober + Georges Perec)

6. AUSCHWITZ L'ALBUM LA MEMOIRE (1984, Alain Jaubert)


B.THE "I" AND THE FAMILY ALBUM

7. MARINE TERRACE (1988, Michel Pamart)

8. EXTRAITS DU JOURNAL DE JACQUES-HENRI LATIGUE (1974, Claude Ventura)

9. LES ANNEES DECLIC 1957-1977 (1984, Raymond Depardon + Roger Ikhlef)


C.IDENTITIES

10. KARINE (1976, Robert Cahen)

11. LA FLECHE DU TEMPS (1982, Alain Jaubert)

12. CINEMATON (1978, Gerard Courant)

13. 36 976 PORTRAITS (1982, Claus Holtz + Hartmut Lerch)

14. LA PETITE CLASSE DE MONSIEUR BERTILLON (1982, Gilles Delavaud)

15. LES CARABINIERS (REVISITES) (1987, Pierre-Oscar Levy)


D.BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING

16. FILMS SUR HANS BELLMER (1972, Catherine Binet)

17. LE PROCEDE FRESSON (1987, Jean Real)
In this film, the photographers John Batho, Frank Horvat, Georges Tourdjman and Bernard Faucon talk about the printing process they prefer: the Fresson process.

18. GEORGES ROUSSE (1985, Christophe Loizillon)

19. PANOPLIE (1978, Philippe Gaucherand)

20. JEAN LE GAC ET LE PEINTRE L (1983, Michel Pamart)

21. CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI (1989, Alain Fleischer)

22. DETAILS ROMAN OPALKA (1987, Christophe Loizillon)


E.STILLNESS/MOVEMENT

23. CARTES POSTALES VIDEO (1986, Robert Cahen + Stephane Huter + Alain Longuet)

24. FILMING MUYBRIDGE (1981, Jean-Louis Gonnet)

25. CONTACTS: WILLIAM KLEIN (1988-1989, William Klein)

26. CONTACTS: ROBERT DOISNEAU (1988-1989, Sylvain Roumette)

27. QUATRE MINUTES QUARANTE-NEUF DE GENERATIONS D'IMAGES (1987, Denis Rousseau-Kaplan)

28. MARDI GRAS (1979, Elizabeth Lennard)

29. NEWS FROM HOME (1976, Chantal Akerman, A+)

30. LETTRE A FREDDY BUACHE (1982, Jean-Luc Godard)

31. COLLOQUE DE CHIENS (1977, Raoul Ruiz)

32. LA JETEE (1963, Chris Marker)


F.VISIBLE, INVISIBLE

33. UNE MINUTE POUR UNE IMAGE (1984, Agnes Varda)

34. LES PHOTOS D'ALIX (1980, Jean Eustache)

35. L'HORREUR DE LA LUMIERE (1982, Jean-Andre Fieschi + Georges Didi-Huberman)

36. ICI ET AILLEURS (1974, Jean-Luc Godard + Anne-Marie Mieville)
37. ULYSSE (1982, Agnes Varda)

38. LA DISPARITION (1982, Alain Jaubert)

39. TROIS HISTOIRES DE CHINE (1981, Alain Jaubert)

40. LE SPHINX (1986, Thierry Knauff)
With text from QUATRE HEURES A CHATILA by Jean Genet


--Of all the 40 films listed above, the one I'd like to see the most is UNE GENERATION (1982, Philippe Grandrieux, 11:30 minutes). I think this Grandrieux should be the same person who directed SOMBRE (1998, A+), though I'm not 100 % sure about this.

MARGES DE LA PHOTO gives a little information about UNE GENERATION. It said, "The PALUCHE and the polaroid to present a generation who has not lived through 68 and for whom the tenth of May has been the first political change. The film discloses snatches of its argument, fragments of pictures, newspaper and television, the impossible choices and the questioning of beliefs."

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MY FAVORITE FILM ABOUT PHOTO

TERMINAL BAR (2003, Stefan Nadelman, A)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344437/


MY FAVORITE PHOTO-RESEMBLING FILM

SUBURBS OF EMPTINESS (2003, Thomas Koener, A+)
http://www.koener.de/bdv.html

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This is the photo 13eme CHAMBRE D'AMOUR by Bernard Faucon
http://www.bernardfaucon.net/photos/index.htm



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