Marcel Hanoun
Octobre à Madrid
Format VOD
Original format16mm
Year1964
Language(s)French
Artist(s) Marcel Hanoun
SubtitlesEnglish, Korean
Running time63 min
Films
OCTOBRE À MADRID (1964) 63'
Description
"An ambitious film, disarming in its simplicity, Octobre à Madrid is something of a prototype for that 'film about film' every filmmaker dreams of making one day. This is what Hanoun filmed: how the filmmaker's life is intimately a film unfolding, how blurred and reversible the boundary is between desire and work, film and life."
— Jean-Louis Comolli
"Octobre à Madrid, by Marcel Hanoun (1964), is certainly the film that has haunted and nourished me most for nearly forty years. With Octobre à Madrid, the director created the first film that would serve as a matrix for a significant part of his work: reflection on the camera as a tool and on cinematic writing dominate, making film out of psychology and dramatic continuity. The author transforms his hesitations, his doubts, and the difficult working conditions into constitutive materials of the work. One of the first film-essays of French cinema, to be seen urgently."
— Raphaël Bassan