Disappearance
From kidnapping to withdrawal from society, from fantasy comedies to thrillers, this program will explore the mise-en-scene of absence and dissolution.
Georges Méliès' first film, The Vanishing Lady (1896), consists in a fascinating trick: the sudden erasure of a woman by the prestidigitator-director himself. From this founding trick to our own day, cinema has always been haunted by the mysteries of disappearance. This program of twenty films looks beyond the fantastical and illusory territories of Méliès' first gesture, to the political and contemporary legacies of this question of the impossible return, as a timeless capture of our era's mutations.
Films
Paris qui dort
René Clair
Une femme disparaît
Alfred Hitchcock
Laura
Otto Preminger
L'avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
L'évaporation de l'homme
Shôhei Imamura
Wanda
Barbara Loden
Pique-nique à Hanging Rock
Peter Weir
Hardcore
Paul Schrader
Un étrange voyage
Alain Cavalier
L'Emprise
Sidney J.Furie
Juan, Como si nada hubiera sucedido
Carlos Echeverría
L'homme qui voulait savoir
George Sluizer
Blight
John Smith
Chronique d'une banlieue ordinaire
Dominique Cabrera
Dans le noir du temps
Jean-Luc Godard
Chronique d'une disparition
Elia Suleiman
Kaïro
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Diane Wellington
Arnaud des Pallières
Qui se souvient de Laurie Zimmer?
Charlotte Szlovak
Shara
Naomi Kawase
Il dono
Michelangelo Frammartino
Keane
Lodge Kerrigan
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry
Seuls Two
Eric Judor / Ramzy Bédia
Mad Max : Fury Road - Black & chrome edition
George Miller
The Lost City of Z
James Gray
