Event Detail

Date & Time: 11/12/2009 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Department: Film and Media Studies
Event Title: Film and Video Center Presents: Seminar with Filmmaker Pedro Costa
Place: Emerald Bay A, Student Center

FREE ADMISSION

Curated in Association with the American Film Institute Film Festival

“Postproduction collaborations with Straub/Huillet”
-OÙ GÎT VOTRE SOURIRE ENFOUI? (WHERE DOES YOUR FLEETING SMILE LIE?) directed by Pedro Costa & Thierry Lounas, Portugal/France, 2001, 104 min. , dvd, In French, Italian, and Sicilian dialect, with English subtitles*

A documentary meditation on the aesthetics and ethics of the “cut,” starring politically dedicated and aesthetically inspired filmmakers Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at work on their rustic drama Sicilia! (1999). Director Costa inscribes his own audio/visual poetics while inviting viewers to participate in the merging, divergence, and collision of creative minds during the process of film editing.

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