Jean-Michel Bouhours
Quel cinéma
Author(s) Jean-Michel Bouhours
Format softcover
Year 2010
Language(s) French
Pages 416 pages
Description
What cinema. Deliberately without punctuation, in order to allow free rein to polysemy and avoid any hasty interpretation.
Over the course of the 20th century, cinema, television and then hypermedia radically imposed the principle of realism; they developed it to such a level of crisis that in these final orgiastic nuptials between the lived world and its image, our contemporary society no longer thinks of itself except through its representation.
This collection of texts is not an exhaustive study of an alternative history of the moving image, film, but a series of milestones in an artistic domain that has had the good fortune to remain on the margins.
Filmmaker Jean-Michel Bouhours is a curator at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou for modern collections, in charge of Dada and Surrealism, editor of publications and curator of exhibitions and film events (Hors Limites, Les Années pop, Jochen Gerz, Len Lye, La Révolution Surréaliste du Cinéma, Monter/Sampler, Michael Snow, Lumière, transparence, opacité, Kees van Dongen...), co-founder of Paris Films Coop.