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Bertrand
Bonello
On
War
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 7pm
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
My
New Picture
& Other Shorts
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at
8pm
Anthology Film Archives
Co-presented with Anthology
Film Archives
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Bertrand
Bonello
Though celebrated for his work in film, Bertrand Bonello
began his career in music, a discipline that continues to
inform his films. His compelling work is representative of
the groundbreaking and boundary-free experimentation born
of interdisciplinary dialogue in the arts. Features, short
films, and sound pieces by Bonello all explore this transformative
relationship between image and sound.
Born in 1968, Bertrand Bonello lives
between Paris and Montréal. His first feature film, Something
Organic (1998), was presented at the Berlin Festival
(Panorama). The Pornographer (2001), his second feature
along with Jean-Pierre Léaud, was selected for International
Critics' Week at Cannes and won the FIPRESCI prize. Bertrand
Bonello imposes his singular voice and world with Tiresia (2003),
in Competition at the Festival de Cannes. In 2005 he returns
to Cannes with a short, Cindy, the
Doll is Mine. He continues making music and, in 2007,
releases My New Picture: an album
to accompany a film presented at the Locarno Festival. In
2008, On War, a feature starring
Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento and Guillaume Depardieu was
selected for the Directors' Fortnight.
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On
War
De la guerre
Tuesday, September 21 at 7pm
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
Directed by Bertrand Bonello, 2008. Color. 130 min.
With Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento, Guillaume Depardieu.
In French with English subtitles.
Screening will be introduced by director
Bertrand Bonello
and will be followed by a Q&A.
Struggling with a midlife crisis, forty-year-old filmmaker,
Bertrand (Amalric) begins to feel disenchanted with the world.
A young man leads him to a utopian refuge in the countryside
where he meets a charismatic Italian woman named Uma (Argento).
Here under Uma’s direction, Bertrand embarks on an
intriguing journey of self-exploration. On War was
screened as part of the Directors’ Fortnight series
at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
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Ticket Price
FIAF
Members Free*
Non-Members $10
Students w/ID $7
Venue
Florence
Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Subway
4, 5, 6 to 59th St
N, R, W to Fifth Ave
E to 53rd St & Fifth Ave
*Free
ticket available at the box office on the day of the
event with valid FIAF Member ID. Advance tickets available
for $2.
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My
New Picture and Other Shorts
Wednesday, September 22 at 8pm
Anthology Film Archives
Screening will be followed by Q&A
with Bertrand Bonello, Andrew Lampert, film archivist and
programmer at Anthology Film Archives, and Marie Losier,
FIAF film curator.
Cindy, the Doll is Mine
Directed by Bertrand Bonello, 2005. Color. 15 min.
With Asia Argento
In English
Cindy, the Doll is Mine is a short film inspired
by a photograph by Cindy Sherman. A brunette takes a photograph
of a blonde and, through the two characters—both played
by the great Asia Argento—Bonello creates a haunting
exploration of duality and ambiguity.
Where the Boys Are
Directed by Bertrand Bonello, 2009. Color. 22 min.
With Esther Garrel, Pauline Etienne, P’tissem
Ayata, Justine Lou Dhouailly
In English
Four young girls in an apartment dream about a hypothetical
boy while, in front of their building, the construction of
the Gennevilliers' mosque is completed.
My New Picture
Bertrand Bonello, 2007. Color. 35 min.
With Sabrina Seyvecou
No dialogue
My New Picture is a “film for the ears,” a
project that musician-turned-filmmaker Bonello began as a
music album and translated into other subsequent, independent
forms of varying lengths and formats. First, there is the “object
that is the CD.” That is, the album, which has a length
of 65 minutes; but there is also this “sound film,” an
image booklet, and a website. Each of these aspects, each
of these atmospheres, can be experienced independently, so
that the audience can imagine and create a film that only
exists as a mental screening.
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Ticket Price
FIAF /
AFA Members $6
Students, seniors
& kids (under 12) $7
Non-Members $9
Venue
Anthology
Film Archives
32 Second Ave,
at 2nd Street, NYC
Subway
F, V to 2nd Ave, LES
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Co-curated
by Pascale Cassagneau and Marie Losier .
Special thanks to Pascale Cassagneau, the Centre national
des arts plastiques/ ministere de la culture, Bertrand Bonello,
Anthology Film Archives, and Les Films du Bélier.
Image: Cindy, the Doll is Mine / © Bertrand Bonello
and MK2
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©2010 FIAF, French Institute Alliance Française 22
East 60th Street, NYC 212 355 6100
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