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What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro Costa, Bruno Dumont, Béla Tarr, Avi Mograbi, Tariq Teguia, Philippe Grandrieux, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub and Sharunas Bartas, chose not to focus solely the cinematic narration on the fate of the characters. They showed telluric spatialities, inhabited territories, existential matrices where ways of doing and of living were mobilized, where forces of emancipation and existential weaknesses were carried out. Welcoming rooms, remarkable transitions, havens for individual and communal destinies: place in cinema sometimes implies the insecurity of an unfinished project, sometimes the solidity of fortifications. The Sense of Place in Cinema demonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialities in film.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism
1. Blow Up My Town, everyday rowdiness
2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion
3. From cities to walls, a local change of scenery
Part II: The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations
4. Avi Mograbi, The Political Workshop
5. A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov's A Humble Life
Part III: The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site
6. Philippe Grandrieux's forest-matter: a multisensory place
7. Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest: the March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey
8. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The "Sacred Sobriety" of the Undergrowth
9. Lisandro Alonso's La Libertad and Los Muertos: the Dual Forest
Part IV: The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated10. Pasolini's Vacant Lots
11. Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment
12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of Ruins
Part V: The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men
14. Bruno Dumont's Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places
15. Béla Tarr, Waiting Behind Barricades
16. Sharunas Bartas' Undergrounds
Epilogue Table of figures
Bibliography