Marcel Hanoun
Octobre à Madrid
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Add rightsFormat DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm
Year 1964
Language(s) French
Artist(s) Marcel Hanoun
Author(s) Emeric de Lastens
Subtitles English, Korean
Booklet 20 pages (French, English)
Running time 63 min
Films
OCTOBRE À MADRID (1964) 63'
Description
"Octobre à Madrid, by Marcel Hanoun (1964), is certainly the film that has haunted and nourished me the most for nearly forty years. With Octobre à Madrid, the filmmaker creates the first film that will serve as a matrix for an important part of his work: reflection on the camera as a tool and on cinematic writing dominate, creating a film out of psychology and dramatic continuity. The author transforms his hesitations, his doubts, and the difficult working conditions into constituent materials of the work. One of the first essay films of French cinema that must be seen urgently."
— Raphaël Bassan
"Although Hanoun devoted much of his career to representing mental operations and psychological disturbances as cinematic practice, Octobre à Madrid is singularly dense with traces of life outside the mind. It might best be described as 'a film about making a film about the inability to make a film,' but it nevertheless manages to touch something tangible and human in its playful self-reflexivity. It's almost a masterpiece for anyone intimately connected to the feeling of failure."
— Dan Sullivan