John Menick Blog | Archive for November, 2006

Next Monday, 16 Beaver is hosting an event dedicated to the memory of Danièle Huillet. As part of the event’s announcement, they’ve included a short, moving email from Jean-Pierre Gorin. Texts on and by Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa, and Serge Daney are also excerpted.

The organizers link to the filmmakers’ recent 12 minute short film, EUROPA 2005 (2006):

…shot last spring and, though it may be shown as an anonymous cine-tract, it will screen along with 4 of their Italian films at the Villa Medici on October 21st. The film was commisioned by Enrico Ghezzi as a “sequel” to Rossellini’s EUROPA ‘51 and the “27 OCTOBRE” of the title refers to the day two teenagers (Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17) were electrocuted and killed while hiding from the police in an electric station - the event that sparked the uprising in France last year. Huillet, Straub and two other filmmakers shot the film on digital video (their first) on the site of the teen deaths, in the suburb Clichy-sous-Bois.

The video follows:

The lecture is from June, but I can’t tell when the video was posted.

It also looks like volume 2 of the Poetics of Cinema has been published in French.

Parachute, Canada’s best and most widely-distributed quarterly art journal, announced today that it would “suspend” publication. It’s a loss for the English- and French-language art worlds. This is the second North American arts journal to fold this year (Res being the first). Are all art journals going to have to go digital to stay afloat? The Parachute press release follows.
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