Dream Sequence Presents: Films By Martine Rousset
Saturday, February 15 · 4 - 5:30pm GMT
SET Social
55a Nigel Road London SE15 4NP
Join us at SET Social for an afternoon screening of Mansfield K and Chants: two stunning poetic works by French experimental filmmaker Martine Rousset.
SET Social
55a Nigel Road London SE15 4NP
Join us at SET Social for an afternoon screening of Mansfield K and Chants: two stunning poetic works by French experimental filmmaker Martine Rousset.
Manfield K (1988)
France - 17’12”
France - 17’12”
Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles.
Dominance of whites and blues.
The fragility of tapered glass.
A visual evocation of the writing of Katherine Mansfield
Dominance of whites and blues.
The fragility of tapered glass.
A visual evocation of the writing of Katherine Mansfield
Chants (1995)
France - 22’03”
Scrutinising the image of this face, this gaze, we see the traces of raw stories, mineral light, and the fragments of an endless dream…
The insistent images collide, to the point of abstraction, with decomposed time, with the chaos of gleaming stones.
Of this returning face, nothing is said.
The gaze cannot be deciphered.
The illusion, even in the darkness, remains mute.
The signs of an absent song.
The insistent images collide, to the point of abstraction, with decomposed time, with the chaos of gleaming stones.
Of this returning face, nothing is said.
The gaze cannot be deciphered.
The illusion, even in the darkness, remains mute.
The signs of an absent song.
About
Martine Rousset
Martine Rousset studied Philosophy of Cinema at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (1970 - 1976). She went on to work alongside Suzanne Pagé in the audiovisual department of Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (1979 - 2020).
Martine Rousset is an important and influential figure within French avant-garde cinema, having co-founded the Coopérative des Cinéastes in 1977 with Patrice Kirchhofer and Gérard Courant. In 1991, she co-founded the film group Dissolution alongside Jennifer Burford, Cécile Fontaine, Vivian Ostrovsky, Marcelle Thirache, Françoise Thomas, and Frédérique Devaux. The group is dedicated to conducting critical analysis of their combined work and to enabling the programming of their films throughout the world.
Rousset’s films have been exhibited at:
Berlin Film Festival (1980), MNAM, Paris (1989), Berkeley (1990), MoMA, New York (1995), Feminale, Cologne (1992/1994/1996), Osnabrück (1996), IMPACT (1996), Oberhausen (1998), Scratch (1998/2001/2003), Riga (2002), Pesaro (2003), Los Angeles Film Forum (2004), Festival des cinémas differents, Paris (2005), La Enana Marrón, Madrid (2005), Rencontre des labos de Bruxelles (2005), 10 ans de l'Abominable (2006), Taiwan Women in the Arts (2007), Les Inattendus, Lyon (2007), Belgrade Alternative Film Festival (2008), Les Écrans Documentaires (2008).