Jean-Luc GODARD, recently honored with an Oscar for his entire body of work, and Wang BING, a young prodigy, twice selected at Cannes for his films on contemporary China…
On the occasion of the birthday* of one of the most important living filmmakers who has never ceased to reinvent cinema (pioneer of the New Wave, unprecedented television experiences, unique and innovative video work, as well as formal inventions and experiments: jump cut, superimposition, image/sound/photo/text relations), L’ECLAT offers a chance to see and listen to his films in connection with the ongoing history.
The link between a cinema giant in perpetual search, Jean-Luc GODARD, and Wang BING, a young prodigious filmmaker twice selected at Cannes for his films exploring a China undergoing profound transformations, highlights two ways of thinking and understanding contemporary history through cinematic expression, and paradoxically, around video works!
On this theme, L’ECLAT will host, on Tuesday, November 30 from 6 PM, a program of “Instants Vidéo”, a structure based in Marseille interested in new forms of writing in the fields of video art, multimedia installations, and creative documentaries…
From November 30 to December 8!
Listen, watch the history…
Around Jean-Luc GODARD and Wang BING
In the presence of the Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing
From November 30 to December 8, 2010
Villa Arson – NICE
Free entry
The event will take place in two parts:
The writer and essayist Guy SCARPETTA will introduce the documentary work of Jean-Luc GODARD, one of the few filmmakers to have used the dialectic of images as a method for thinking about history and cinema. A large part of his films made in video remain largely undistributed, offering the occasion to appreciate their importance.
Patrick LEBOUTTE will present the work of Wang BING, whose first film made in DV, “West of the Tracks,” an uncompromising testimony to the life of workers in a district destined for disappearance, already stands among the great works of the 21st century. Discovering other films by the filmmaker will allow us to appreciate the pertinence of his perspective on the history of contemporary China.
Through this event, L’ECLAT aims to provide an opportunity for the public, and especially those in training, to engage with cinema in “direct engagement” with contemporary history.
*Jean-Luc Godard was born on December 3, 1930, in Paris. He will be 80 years old during this event!
THE PROGRAM
Jean-Luc GODARD
Wednesday, December 1
6 PM – La chinoise (1967)
8 PM – Tout va bien (1972)
Thursday, December 2
6 PM – Les carabiniers (1953)
8 PM – Ici et ailleurs (1976) / Liberté et Patrie (2002)
Friday, December 3
6 PM – The Old Place (1998) / The Origin of the 21st Century (2000)
8 PM – Histoire(s) du cinéma (2000)
Saturday, December 4
4 PM – For ever Mozart (1996)
6 PM – Je vous salue Sarajevo (1993) / Notre musique (2003)
8 PM – Film socialisme (2010)
Wang BING
Sunday, December 5
West of the Tracks (2004, 9h)
2 PM – Rust 1 (124’)
4:30 PM – Rust 2 (119’)
7:30 PM – Remnants (178’)
Monday, December 6
West of the Tracks (2004, 9h)
6:30 PM – Discussion with WANG BING present
8 PM – Rails (135’)
Tuesday, December 7
7 PM – Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman (2007)
Wednesday, December 8
8 PM – The Man Without a Name (2009)
L’ECLAT: An Experience in Cinema
L’ECLAT is a Regional Center for Artistic Education and Cinema Training in PACA. It ensures a circulation between distribution, training, and creation in the field of visual and sound arts. Targeting the broadest public, L’ECLAT fosters the meeting of arts by placing cinema in dialogue with different artistic forms. Based at Villa Arson, L’ECLAT develops a cinematic program emphasizing works by young filmmakers or emerging cinemas, particularly in connection with the activities of the National School of Art and the National Center for Contemporary Art.
Place for Cinema and Letters, Arts, and Technologies Experiences
Villa Arson – 20 avenue Stephen Liégeard 06100 Nice
04 97 03 01 15 / 19 – www.villa-arson.org/cinema-leclat
