Description
On Films 1976-1998
Author/Editor: yann beauvais; Edited Scott Hammen
CONTENTS
The artist yann beauvais was perhaps the single most significant contributor to the history of experimental film in France in the last quarter of the 20th century. When he withdrew from the Paris scene in 2000, his legacy included books, museum exhibitions, the Light Cone distribution cooperative and a rich body of his own film work.
This book surveys his prodigious creative activity in this period both through his reflections on his own films and articles he published on the work of others.
In the new century yann beauvais moved on both geographically from Paris and artistically into electronic media. But the importance of his activity when he was based in Paris both as an artist in Super-8mm and 16mm film and as a champion of other filmmakers through his work as a critic, curator, distributor and exhibitor, deserves specific attention. He recalled this period with characteristic modesty:
“There have always been musicians’ musicians so I thought maybe I was a filmmakers’ filmmaker. I might never have public recognition but other filmmakers might recognize me and realize that, had I not been there, something would have been lacking.”
The book has two parts:
Making Films 1976–1997 is a transcription of yann beauvais’s spontaneous spoken commentary recorded in 2017 while viewing his film work. It was transcribed and then edited for coherence with his approval.
Articles on Film 1979–1998 is a translation of the complete text of Poussières d’image published in 1998 by Paris Expèrimental. Certain chapters were originally published separately in English and, in those cases, the original translator is credited. All of the others have been translated for the first time by this book’s editor.
CONTENTS:
Part One: Making Films 1976–1997
Prologue
R
Très rare film
Mis en Pièces
Wanderer
Temps de mètre
According To…
Disjet
Éliclipse
Miles
Enjeux
Sans Titre 84
RR
Journaux 1983–1985
Amoroso
VO/ID 1985–1986
Divers-Épars
29 10 88
Tas De Beaux Gosses
Spetsai
Ligne d’eau
Quatr’un
We’ve Got the Red Blues
SID A IDS
New York Long Distance
SANS TITRE 96
Epilogue
Part Two: Articles on Film 1979–1998
Preface, 1998 Edition
Chapter 1: On Contemporary Cinema
Resistance Cinema
A Minor Cinema, of Customs, of Moods
Always Fair Weather…
Martine Rousset
Vivian Ostrovsky
Rose Lowder
Chapter 2: Underground Cinema
Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Paul Sharits
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Kenneth Anger
Ken Jacobs
Chapter 3: Recycling
Outtakes
Joseph Cornell
Cécile Fontaine
Bruce Conner
Chapter 4: Len Lye and László Moholy-Nagy
Relations Between Len Lye and László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy
Len Lye
Chapter 5: Gay Cinema
A Homage to Mario Montez
Cinematic Representation and AIDS
Anger, Markopoulos, and Genet
Derek Jarman
Lot in Sodom
Hiroyuki Oki
Chapter 6: Some Questions of Cinema
A Simulacrum Question
The Musical
The Film Noir
Speed Reading
From One World to Another
The City Revisited
Acknowledgements, 1998 Edition
Publisher: Eyewash Books
Publication date: April 19, 2022
Print length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 2912539625
ISBN-13: 978-2912539625
Item Weight: 1.27 pounds
Dimensions: 6 x 0.87 x 9 inches