tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post115082377789629564..comments2023-10-30T11:57:26.749+01:00Comments on SCREENVILLE: Bruno Dumont on filmmakingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-1157030052318142242006-08-31T15:14:00.000+02:002006-08-31T15:14:00.000+02:00More radio interviews with Bruno Dumont (in French...More radio interviews with Bruno Dumont (in French):<BR/>-<A HREF="http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/avventura/fiche.php?diffusion_id=44654" REL="nofollow">L'Avventura</A> with Laure Adler on France Culture (almost 1h of interview)<BR/>-<A HREF="http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-inter01/ete2005/cinema/index.php?date_demande=26-08-2006&emission=100020127&affichage=HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-1151278475603105932006-06-26T01:34:00.000+02:002006-06-26T01:34:00.000+02:00Thanks for the tip Pierre.On second thought, Dumon...Thanks for the tip Pierre.<BR/><BR/>On second thought, Dumont's allegation about the minimum requirement for a love story doesn't make much sense afterall... <BR/>He even stressed the fact that the ending of <B>Flandres</B> had to give hope with a suggestion of a happy end.<BR/>I don't understand how he could push his conception of cinema so far into abstraction without being able to overcome theHarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-1151054450466934342006-06-23T11:20:00.000+02:002006-06-23T11:20:00.000+02:00Revealing story about this Q&A. ;)As a former phil...Revealing story about this Q&A. ;)<BR/><BR/>As a former philosopher he should be able to articulate a lucid and honest theory of his work, without projecting too much expectations in the audience.<BR/>In this interview he sounded almost embarassed to be refered as a philosopher, thus why he promptly dissmissed "thinking cinema".<BR/>It's a curious posture for a philosopher, even a rebellious one.HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-1150980739889382912006-06-22T14:52:00.000+02:002006-06-22T14:52:00.000+02:00Heheh, yes! During the Twentynine Palms Q&A, he w...Heheh, yes! During the <EM>Twentynine Palms</EM> Q&A, he was very articulate about how we <EM>should</EM> view the film, not in terms of narrative, but as an abstract work, where the only thing that matters is the sensation. So if he's even structuring the audience's way of seeing, that's not exactly serendipity or happenstance.<BR/><BR/>The funny thing is, after pretty much a skewering by one Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-1150935569677455952006-06-22T02:19:00.000+02:002006-06-22T02:19:00.000+02:00What's self-contradictory in his words is that he'...What's self-contradictory in his words is that he's a White Elephant trying hard to sound like a Termite (borrowing <A HREF="http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2006/06/termite-art-vs-white-elephant-art.html" REL="nofollow">Farber's taxonomy</A>).<BR/>He says he refuses thoughful intentions, meaning, construction, aesthetic sophistication, acting virtuosity, that he welcomes accident and HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-1150900868735578912006-06-21T16:41:00.000+02:002006-06-21T16:41:00.000+02:00I haven't read much about Dumont, and wasn't even ...I haven't read much about Dumont, and wasn't even tempted to watch <B>Twentynine Palms</B> after the critical pan. So this post was just my notes from this only interview, and putting it all back in order thematically.<BR/><BR/>You put it into words better than I could. ;)<BR/>"the idea on the physical "meaninglessness" of images (that they only serve to extract the sensation and are disposable),HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-1150894004692950772006-06-21T14:46:00.000+02:002006-06-21T14:46:00.000+02:00Thanks for the transcription, Dumont's theories ar...Thanks for the transcription, Dumont's theories are always interesting to hear. I've caught a couple of Q&A's with Dumont for his earlier films, and he does seem to be fixated on the idea on the physical "meaninglessness" of images (that they only serve to extract the sensation and are disposable), and the idea of disengaging the image from conventional coding. I don't always see that his Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com