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[Open Lecture] Jeanne Dielman’s Enduring Legacy: Micropolyphonic Worlds of Contemporary Auteur Cinema (Ackerman, Dardenne & the New Romanian Cinema)

Dates
  • 0512

    FRI
    2023

Place
503 on the 5th floor of Building 11

Title:

Jeanne Dielman’s Enduring Legacy: Micropolyphonic Worlds of Contemporary Auteur Cinema (Ackerman, Dardenne & the New Romanian Cinema)

Lecturer:

Prof.Dominique Nasta  (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Date:

17.30 – 19.10 Friday the 12th of May, 2023

Venue:

Room 503 on the 5th floor of Building 11, Waseda University

Admission:

Free and open to everyone

Language:

English (no translation)

Abstract:

In 2022 Jeanne Dielman: 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles directed by the Belgian film maker, Chantal Ackerman in 1975 topped at the list of 100 films honoured by the Sight and Sound magazine’s latest decennial Greatest Films of All Time critics poll.  It was the first time in its 70-year history that the film made by a female director is selected as the greatest film of all time and this was hailed in the film world as ‘a shake-up, a crack in the wall, and a challenge to the cannon’.  In this lecture, Prof. Nast is lecture’s Jeanne Dielman’s lasting influence on contemporary auteurs such as Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Corneliu Porumboiu in their minimalist or so-called micro-polyphonic cinema.

 Profile:

 Dominique Nasta is Full Professor of Film Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She is a Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Letters and has been chairing the Film Studies Department from 1991 to the present. She is the author of Contemporary Romanian Cinema: The History of an Unexpected Miracle (2013) and of Meaning in Film: Relevant Structures in Soundtrack and Narrative (1992) and has co-edited Revisiting Film Melodrama (2014), New Perspectives in Sound Studies (2004) and La chanson dans les cinémas d’Europe et d’Amérique Latine 1960-2010 (2019). She has published widely on Romanian cinema -most recently chapters of The Global Auteur, (2016) and The New Romanian Cinema, (2019) on emotions and music in films, the aesthetics of silent melodramas, the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni. She is Series editor for Rethinking Cinema a bilingual collection published by Peter Lang.

Jeanne Dielman can be watched online:

https://archive.org/details/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles-akerman

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