Full Description
Broodthaers' oeuvre and the history of experimental film
Marcel Broodthaers, one of the key figures of the postwar avant-garde, has been recognized and extensively studied as a poet who became a visual artist in 1964. However, years before creating his first sculptural objects and installations, Broodthaers made his debut as a filmmaker in 1957 with La Clef de l'horloge, embarking on a prolific cinema practice that yielded more than fifty films shot on 35mm and 16mm. Cinema, both as a medium and principle, was crucial to his artistry. Broodthaers's writings and visual oeuvre are permeated with allusions to film, its history, and its technology.
Covering both well-known titles such as Le Corbeau et le renard (1967), La Pluie (1969), and Une Seconde d'éternité (1970) as well as many lesser-known Broodthaers films, the essays in this book discuss his films as inseparable from his entire oeuvre while situating them in the larger history of experimental film. In addition, the book scrutinizes his experiments with cinepoetry and expanded cinema, as well as his interest in early cinema and his fascination with signs and inscriptions.
Marcel Broodthaers and Film brings together essays by Andrew Chesher, Eric C. H. de Bruyn, Xavier García Bardón, Charlotte Friling, Steven Jacobs, Bruce Jenkins, Deborah Schultz, Christophe Wall-Romana, and Raf Wollaert.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Cinema Models of Marcel Broodthaers
Steven Jacobs and Raf Wollaert
René and Marcel at the Movies
Preliminary Remarks
Bruce Jenkins
La Séance and Other Assemblies
Eric C. H. de Bruyn
Broodthaers's Cinepoetic Concretions
Christophe Wall-Romana
A Denounced Tautology
On Une Seconde d'éternité (D'après une idée de Charles Baudelaire)(1970)
Andrew Chesher
Le Corbeau et le renard in Knokke-le-Zoute
Notes on the Production and Projection at EXPRMNTL 4, December 1967
Xavier García Bardón
Traveling Words and Images
Found Postcards in the Films of Marcel Broodthaers
Deborah Schultz
Marcel Broodthaers's Underground Cinema
Au-delà de cette limite (1971)
Charlotte Friling
Broodthaers, Bentham, and Pygmalion
Figures of Wax (1974)
Steven Jacobs
In The Eye of the Storm
Berlin oder ein Traum mit Sahne (1974)
Raf Wollaert
Filmography
Raf Wollaert
Contributors and Editors
Index
