L’ECLAT continues its chapter on the Cinema of Thought with Michel Foucault. In the form of meetings with young thinkers, Foucault Goes to the Cinema offered a first highlight from February 11 to 13 and continues with two other cycles of screenings from March 20 to 22 and from April 10 to 12. The event will close with a final day of screenings on April 25, as part of the “In & Out” festival.
There are three more gatherings during which more than fifteen films from different countries, eras, genres, and aesthetics will be shown, centered around four themes:
– With Foucault: program composed of archival documents, documentaries, film appearances, in partnership with INA (Doing Wrong, Telling the Truth: Interview with Michel Foucault…)
– Of Foucault: films that the thinker commented on, either in writing or in interviews (Lacombe Lucien by Louis Malle, Comizi d’amore – Inquiry on Sexuality – by Pier Paolo Pasolini…)
– For Foucault: films that represent his thinking through themes or form (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV by Roberto Rossellini…)
– After Foucault: contemporary films in which his thought has evolved and which can be considered as his legacy (Punishment Park by Peter Watkins…)
The event Foucault Goes to the Cinema is the subject of a publication with the same title by Bayard Editions, bringing together a selection of extensive extracts from the philosopher’s texts on cinema, presented and analyzed by the young and talented philosophers Dork Zabunyan and Patrice Maniglier.
