Film Screening: Portrait and Community

Saturday 17 September, 19.00 – 22.00

Hillcrest Centre

 

From a Line  Painted on the Ground by Maxime Brygo, followed by Chronique d’un Été (Chronicle of a Summer), by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.

 

After filming still images of the landscape around Newhaven and Dieppe, Maxime Brygo extracted 96 photographs and submitted these to inhabitants of both towns. These participants were invited to select one of these landscapes and to recount a story of their choosing, projecting their own history and memory onto the image. These stories are worked into a voiceover that exists within a space that spans both sides of the Channel, creating a collective voice that introduces a narrative to this shared new world.

 

Chronique d’un Été (Chronicle of a Summer) (1961) is a film by anthropologist filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin. Rouch and Morin set out to chronicle the lives of Parisians through a mixture of intimate interviews, debates and observations, creating fictional moments from the testimonies of real-life individuals. The film is framed by the question of whether it is possible to act sincerely in front of a camera, a question that is taken up and discussed within the film by its cast.

 

£4/£2 Concessions