Author Archive for: ‘Nicole Brenez’
The Ultimate Journey: Remarks on Contemporary Theory
Ultimatum: An Introduction to the Work of Nicole Brenez Adrian Martin In 1955, Jacques Rivette wrote: “It seems to me impossible to see Voyage to Italy [Roberto Rossellini, 1953] without receiving direct evidence of the fact that the film opens a breach, and that all cinema, on pain of death, must pass through it”. [1] The history of high level, theoretically-informed film criticism …
Read MorePolitical Cinema Today – The New Exigencies: For a Republic of Images
Cinema and World ‘World Cinema’, to a French eye, is a very welcoming notion that could mean several different, even contradictory things. Among these, I will evoke three meanings: Because of its predecessor World Music, which means the ethnic music re-arranged with electronic instruments to please Western consumers, World Cinema could function as a seductive formula for acculturation – after …
Read MoreIncomparable Bodies
But First … Necessarily coexisting human beings are not thinkable as mere bodies and, like even the cultural objects which belong with them structurally, are not exhausted in corporeal being. – Edmund Husserl, Origin of Geometry[1] In the Kingdom of the Effigy In cinema we must – as a matter of method – remove those glasses which Dr Coppelius …
Read MoreThe grand style of the epoch. Baise-moi – girls better than maenads, darker than furies
For Lionel Soukaz ‘I hardly believe that the fair sex is capable of principles’. Immanuel Kant, Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime [1] Contrary to a widespread opinion found in the French press at the moment of its release and then of its ‘X’ rating – even in the most well-informed cinema journals [2] – Virginie Despentes’ and Coralie …
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