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Informationen zum Autor Since 1999 Marjorie (Marji) Vecchio curated over 40 exhibitions, worked with 250 artists, published numerous authors in over twenty catalogues, and commissioned many professional and emerging print designers. She developed solo, two---person, group and large survey exhibitions based on a variety of subjects, themes and formal concerns, as well as designed residencies and workshops for filmmakers, scholars and artists alike. Before becoming a curator, Vecchio was a photographic artist for eleven years. From 2006 - 2012 she was Director and Curator for Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno. She has been a Board Member since 2012 of Signal Fire Artist Residency. In Fall 2009 she won the inaugural semester---long Scholar---in-Residence at Columbus State University in Georgia to begin this book. Klappentext The films of Claire Denis! one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers! probe the psyche of global citizenship! tracing the borderlines of family! desire! nationality and power. This book explores the themes she addresses in her films! such as kinship and landscape! Neo-Colonialism and New French Extremity. Zusammenfassung The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. With subtlety, depth and at times minimalism and abstraction, her films - including "Chocolat", "Beau travail" and "White Material" - explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualizing the complications of such dualities. Following a Foreword by Wim Wenders, with whom Denis worked prior to making her own movies, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, Neo-Colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers most familiar with the working style of Denis, and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker. As Wim Wenders writes in his Foreword: 'This book will hopefully throw many new lights on the amazing director that Klarchen [Claire Denis] became, a path she carved out all on her own.' Inhaltsverzeichnis Marjorie Vecchio- IntroductionWim Wenders- Forward: “Klärchen“1. InterviewsMartine Beugnet -‘To Let The Image Sing’: Conversations with Dickon Hinchliffe and Stuart StaplesKirsten Johnson - Interview with Nelly Quettier, Paris July 2011- Interview with Alex Descas, Paris July 2011Jean-Luc Nancy - Interview with Claire Denis, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland Summer 2011 (Trans. Nathalie Le Galloudec)2. RelationsCatherine Wheatley - La Famille DenisSam Ishii-Gonzales - Reinventing Community, or Non-Relational Relations in Claire Denis’s I Can’t SleepJames S. Williams- Beyond the Other: Grafting Relations in the films of Claire Denis3. Global CitizenshipCornelia Ruhe - Beyond Post-colonialism? From Chocolat to White MaterialFlorence Martin- Trouble Every Day: The Neo-Colonialists bite back.Rafael Ruiz Pleguezuelos- Foreignness and Employment: A Study of the Role of Work in the Films of Claire DenisJean-Luc Nancy - The Intruder According to Claire Denis (Trans. Anna Moschovakis)4. Within filmNoëlle Rouxel-Cubberly- Delivering: Claire Denis’s opening sequencesLaura McMahon - Rhythms of Relationality: Denis and Dance Firoza Elavia - That Interrupting Feeling: Interstitial Disjunctions in Claire Denis’s L'IntrusHenrik Gustafsson- Points of Flight, Lines of Fracture: Claire Denis’s Uncanny LandscapeAdam Nayman and Andrew Tracy - Arthouse/Grindhouse: Claire Denis and the “New French Extremity”FilmographyIndex...
