Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, the "art shanghai European National Collection Exhibition" launched a new special unit - the Sino-French women's film project "Her in Creation" - using "century" as the time measurement, tracing back to the birth of the film In France, the "hometown of cinema", the film journey narrated by female filmmakers accompanying the emergence and development of the "Seventh Art" shows the experiments, explorations and achievements of women in the medium of film. Among them, the screening section of this special unit will be presented in the form of "French Film Week" from June 28, 2024 to July 7, 2024 at Shanghai Cinemas and Shanghai Baimeihui Cinemas. It is of great historical significance in the history of film and outstanding contemporary French women's films that have emerged in recent years.
"The Queen"
Female filmmakers have had an indelible impact on the origin, development and promotion of film art. "She in Creation" proposes the concept of "women behind the camera", that is, the identity and perspective of women standing behind the camera as gazers, narrators, and creators.
"The Soul of the Artist"
With this as the core, "Her in Creation: art shanghai French Film Week" teamed up with the French Film Archive, one of the world's largest film archives, to select 6 works by female directors spanning a century, including : The first female director in the history of world cinema, Alice Guy (Alice Guy), one of the few extant feature films "The Empress" (1917), the pioneer of the "Impressionist Film" movement and the founder of the "Pure Film" theory. The feature film "The Artist's Soul" (Âme d'artiste, 1924) directed by Germaine Dulac is a very special but rare moment in the creative career of French "Grandmother of the New Wave" Agnès Varda The released "les créatures" (1965, newly completed 4K restoration in 2023), Marguerite Duras's first directorial work "La Musica" (1966), French contemporary Filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve won the Berlin Film Festival's "Best Director Award" for her work "The Future of Things" (l'avenir, 2016), and her work "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" "(le hérisson, 2009) "The Melancholic Little Girl" is a new "docudrama" written and directed by the well-known French filmmaker Mona Achache, which traces the situation of her mother and women in her matrilineal family. (little girl blue, 2023).
"Creation"
At the same time, representative French actresses of different generations presented unique performances under the narration and lens of these female directors, including: Delphine Seyrig, Catherine... Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Marion Cotillard, etc. They are "epitomized" in the film narration and consciousness of these female directors - not only supporting the creation of "her" behind the camera, but also injecting character creation based on their own female consciousness into the world of the film in front of the camera.
"Music"
presents 6 films this time, 4 of which are publicly screened in Chinese World Cinemas for the first time. In such a precious film array that connects female filmmakers from the birth of film to contemporary times, the audience will fully experience and perceive the sustainability, rotation, and continuity that generations of female filmmakers have made in the world of the film industry system. s hard work.
"Things to Come"
"Melancholy Little Girl"
"Her in Creation: art shanghai French Film Week" is an extension of the theme exhibition of the same name held at One Source on the Bund, Shanghai from June 13 to July 13, 2024 and linkage, hoping to open up a field where museums and cinemas overlap, reflect and join hands, so that people who love movies can enter a different kind of movie world and human beings built by female filmmakers in a continuous historical narrative. The telling of life stories.Using "she" as the narrative point of view, we re-review and explore the little-known contributions of women in the early history of film development, and outline a group portrait that was once suppressed but extremely vivid: they are the key players in the development of film. Active participants and co-creators, the history they write and tell is the “other side” of human history that urgently needs to be completed.
Author: Weizhong
Text: Weizhong Pictures: Provided by the organizer Editor: Li Ting Editor: Xing Xiaofang
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