Où Gît Votre Sourire Enfoui

3 April, 2015 - 15:30
SPHINX 3

 

There are those who stick close to reality and do not put their imagination in there, their limited imagination of limited creatures. And then there are those who distort reality for the sake of the so-called wealth of their imagination. The result is that the imagination is much more limited in the work of the second family than in that of the first. Because there is less patience in the work of the second family and, as someone once said, genius is nothing more than a great deal of patience. Because if you have a great deal of patience, it is charged with contradictions at the same time. Otherwise it doesn’t have the time to be charged. Lasting patience is necessarily charged with tenderness and violence... There’s a temptation to show a mountain. Then one fine day you realize that it’s better to see as little as possible. You have a sort of reduction, only it’s not a reduction, it’s a concentration and it actually says more. But you don’t do this immediately from one day to the next! You need time and patience. A sigh can become a novel.” (Jean-Marie Straub)

 

Gevolgd door een DISSENT! talk met Pedro Costa en Thom Andersen.

Où Gît Votre Sourire Enfoui (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?)

Pedro Costa
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FR, PT
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2001
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35mm
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colour
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104'

Pedro Costa filmde dit portret van de regisseurs Jean-Marie Straub en Danièle Huillet terwijl zij hun film Sicilia! tot een derde versie herwerkten in de Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Le Fresnoy. Een werk over en gemaakt met vriendschap, toewijding en één van de belangrijkste lessen over cinema.