Marcel Hanoun
Cinéma Cinéaste : notes sur l'image écrite
Author(s) Marcel Hanoun
Format softcover book
Year 2001
Language(s) French
Pages 160 pages
Description
Marcel Hanoun's project through these Notes, like his films, is both simple and ambitious. Through writing and reflection, it seeks to approach as closely and accurately as possible the act of cinematic creation: image, sound, time, movement, silence, speech—never taken for granted, constantly to be reinvented. […] […] Central axes emerge, recurring preoccupations circumscribe themes, figures, paths: violence, the margins, the fall, addition or subtraction; the relationship between music and image, between intention and expression, between the artist, their work and the public, between the given experience and its unlimited possibilities… Underpinned by the perpetual concern of "what filming means," the Notes gathered by Marcel Hanoun, like those famous ones by Bresson, are neither precepts nor lessons; more than a meditation on art and creation, they offer the reader, cinephile or not, new spaces for reflection and perception. They bring cinema back to what it should not forget to be: the shaping of a gaze cast upon the world, a conscious act placed upon its meaning.