The Auteur With the Camera: The Image in Recent Art Cinema

Event time: 
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 12:00am to Saturday, October 6, 2018 - 12:00am
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Friday, October 5

Room 208:

9:30AM Introductions

10:00AM Richard Suchenski: “Space and Memory in Contemporary Auteur Cinema”

11:00AM Joe McElhaney: “Hou Hsiao-hsien, the Image of Fabric”

1:00PM Jiwei Xioa and Dudley Andrew: “Bi Gan’s Poetics in Kaili Blues”

2:00PM Oksana Chefranova: “Tracking: On the Genealogy and Poetics of Movement in Carlos Reygadas’ Japón”

2:45PM Michael Cramer: “The Impossible Body: Camera and Subjectivity in Carlos Reygadas”

4:00PM-5:30PM Reni-Celeste Lecture: Jean Ma: “What Lies Beneath: Apichatpong’s Narcoleptic Visions.”

The Auditorium:

6:30PM Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, China, 2015)

8:45PM Bi Gan in conversation with Jean-Michel Frodon

Saturday, October 6

Room 208

10:00AM Rick Warner: “Atmospheric Suspense in the Slow Thriller Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa”

11:00AM Richard Peña: “Queering the Pitch: Visual and Narrative Instability in Diamantino (2018)”

1:00PM Antonio Somaini: “High and Low Resolution in Recent French Experimental Cinema: Jacques Perconte, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni”

2:00PM Jean-Michel Frodon: reflections on film style today, followed by general discussion

The Auditorium:

3:00-4:30PM films by Apichatpong Weerasethekul, Ben Rivers, and Jacques Perconte