Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema's only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work remains, however, relatively unknown outside of the international art film festival circuit. In this volume, the first book-length study of the work of Grandrieux in any language, Greg Hainge provides an overview and critical analysis of Grandrieux's entire career during which he has produced works for television, video installations, photography, performance pieces, documentary films, short films and prize-winning feature films. As well as providing an overview, the book argues that a critical appraisal of his work necessarily leads us to problematize many of the critical orthodoxies that have been formed in recent times, to reject the concept of a haptic cinema and to supplant this instead with the idea of a sonic cinema.
Author(s): Greg Hainger
Series: Ex:Centrics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 312
City: London
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Back to Bacon
Chapter 1: In the beginning
Via la vidéo [Via Video] (1975)
Chapter 2: The television years
La Peinture cubiste [Cubist Painting] (1981)
Juste une image [Just an Image] (1982) and Une Génération [A Generation] (1982)
The 1980s
Live (1990)
La Roue [The Wheel] (1993)
La Chasse au Starck [The Starck Hunt] (1993), Les Enjeux militaires [Military Stakes] (1994), Brut (1995–7)
Chapter 3: Long-form documentaries
Jogo du bicho/Le jeu des animaux [The Animal Game] (1994)
Retour à Sarajevo [Return to Sarajevo] (1996)
Chapter 4: Intermezzo
Chapter 5: Sombre (1998)
Story
Form
Relation
Chapter 6: La Vie nouvelle [A New Life] (2002)
La Vita nuova
In tension
The Frenchman
Collapse
Dance and descent
Openings
Chapter 7: The turn to nature
Met (2006)
Grenoble (2006)
L’Arrière-saison [Indian Summer] (2005)
Despite appearances to the contrary
Chapter 8: Un lac [A Lake] (2008)
The question of narrative
Listening in/to the Dark
Chapter 9: Recent works
Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution – Masao Adachi [It may be that beauty has strengthened our resolve – Masao Adachi ] (2011)
Unrest
White Epilepsy
Meurtrière
Conclusion
Afterword: Sonic Cinema
Notes
References
Index
