Professor of French Martine Guyot-Bender presented a paper at the XXth-XXIst century French Studies International Colloquium at the University of Minnesota in March. After attending the Festival du Réel at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, one of the most prominent festivals/conferences on contemporary film documentary, Guyot-Bender traveled to Minneapolis, to present her paper on the new forms of contemporary militant documentary.
Her paper overviewed SLON/ISKRA, a producer of militant films funded by Chris Marker in 1967, and examined esthetical and narrative choices in the cinéma citoyen of Stéphane Mercurio, an up-and-coming filmmaker produced by ISKRA, who will be at Hamilton presenting her award winning movie, The House Next Door, on Sunday, April 5, at 2 p.m. in KJ Auditorium, as part of the F.I.L.M. series.
Her paper overviewed SLON/ISKRA, a producer of militant films funded by Chris Marker in 1967, and examined esthetical and narrative choices in the cinéma citoyen of Stéphane Mercurio, an up-and-coming filmmaker produced by ISKRA, who will be at Hamilton presenting her award winning movie, The House Next Door, on Sunday, April 5, at 2 p.m. in KJ Auditorium, as part of the F.I.L.M. series.
