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MARGUERITE DURAS: AUTO-REMAKES

May 2 – May 15

To celebrate the release of the new publication from Another Gaze Editions – a new English translation of “My Cinema”, a collection of writings by and interviews with Marguerite Duras – we present a selection of Duras’s films, with a special focus on some of the more rarely-screened works in her moving-image oeuvre.

Working chronologically through her nineteen films, made between 1966 and 1985, “My Cinema” is a collection of reflections by Duras that includes non-standard press releases, notes to her actors, letters to funders, short essays on themes as provocatively capacious as “mothers” and “witches,” as well as some of the most significant interviews she gave about her cinematic and writing practices (with filmmakers and critics including Jacques Rivette, Caroline Champetier, and Jean Narboni). In Duras’s hands, all of these forms turn into a strange, gnomic literature in which the boundary between word and image becomes increasingly blurred and the paradox of creating a cinema that seeks “to destroy the cinema” finds its most potent expression.

Anthology’s series showcases several instances in which Duras revisited her own work. For HER VENETIAN NAME IN DESERTED CALCUTTA (1976), she repurposed the soundtrack of her most famous film, INDIA SONG (1975); the film version of DES JOURNÉES ENTIÈRES DANS LES ARBRES (1977) is an adaptation of her own short story which she had already transposed to the stage a decade earlier; while L’HOMME ATLANTIQUE (1981) is constructed using outtakes from her feature film of the same year, AGATHA ET LES LECTURES ILLIMITÉES.

Programmed in collaboration with Daniella Shreir, co-creator of Another Gaze Editions and co-editor of Another Gaze, a journal of film and feminisms.

For more info about “My Cinema” visit: https://www.anothergazeeditions.com/books

This series is presented with invaluable support from Villa Albertine. Special thanks to Vincent Florant, Sandrine Neveux, Paul Vezinet, and Nathalie Charles (Villa Albertine); Brian Belovarac (Janus Films); Dies Blau (INA); Michèle Kastner (Editions Benoît Jacob); Louise Paraut (Gaumont); and Daniella Shreir (Another Gaze).

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