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Une certaine tendance du cinéma documentaire

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Le cinéma documentaire se voulait le fruit d'un artisanat furieux, à l'écart du marché. De cette liberté des formes, les télévisions, principaux financeurs, ne veulent plus. Elles imposent des normes (commentaires redondants et montages accélérés) qui stérilisent les films diffusés et ceux qui aspirent à l'être. Une certaine tendance au conformisme s'impose. Il faudrait à la fois se conformer et donner le change en passant pour "neuf". Dans les années quatre-vingt, j'ai renoncé au cinéma "de fiction" et lui ai préféré le documentaire pour sa liberté. C'est en documentaire que la parole filmée prend force et beauté, que les corps filmés, quels qu'ils soient, acquièrent une dignité ― celle dont les serviteurs du marché se moquent. J.-L. C.

96 pages, Pocket Book

Published February 4, 2021

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Jean-Louis Comolli

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Jean-Louis Comolli (born 30 July 1941) is a French writer, editor, and film director. He was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1966 to 1978, during which period he wrote the influential essays "Machines of the Visible" (1971) and "Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field" (1971-2), both of which have been translated in English anthologies of film and media studies. This work was important in the discussion on apparatus theory, an attempt to rethink cinema as a site for the production and maintenance of dominant state ideology in the wake of May 1968.

After his tenure at Cahiers, Comolli continued his work as a director and published numerous works on film theory, documentary, and jazz. He taught film theory at the Universities of Paris VIII, Barcelona, Strasburg and Genève. (Via wiki)

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