Frédérique Devaux, Michel Amarger
Cinémas de Traverse
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Add rightsOriginal format 35mm
Year 2005-2009
Language(s) French, English
Artist(s) Frédérique Devaux, Michel Amarger
Subtitles French, English
Running time 136 min
Films
CINÉMAS DE TRAVERSE (PARTIE 1) (2009) 40'
CINÉMAS DE TRAVERSE (PARTIE 2) (2009) 49'
CINÉMAS DE TRAVERSE (PARTIE 3) (2009) 47'
BONUS INTERVIEWS: Ben Rivers, Peter Tscherkassky, Martha Colburn, Friedl Kubelka, Siegfried Fruhauf
Description
This diary was made between 2005 and 2009 on four continents. It is a subjective journey through experimental approaches and procedures, showing the scope of these investigations and paying tribute to filmmakers who contribute to the history of cinema: Jonas Mekas (USA), Peter Kubelka (Austria), Boris Lehman (Belgium), Joseph Morder (France), Peter Tscherkassky (Austria) and Guy Sherwin (UK), among many others. These alternative paths lead us to production sites and distribution networks created specifically for experimental films.
"Cinémas de Traverse fills a void and functions like maps: it provides lines of measurement and orientation; it is up to us to discern the intensities of what continues to be created in this continent still so little explored by documentary cinema."
— Gabriela Trujillo, writer and researcher
"Devaux and Amarger's essay highlights the practical and intellectual resources, questioning the citizen-practitioners of this 'new Republic,' setting out, subjectively, to the four corners of the world, on the trail of experimental cinema."
— Raphaël Bassan, film critic and historian