Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: How should we interpret an essential interviewee’s refusal to grant an interview? While researching activist filmmakers of the 1970s, I was unable to meet with the documentary filmmaker Chris Marker, who explained the reasons for his refusal in an e-mail. Following his death in 2012, his refusal seemed rife with meaning that I have interpreted and used to formulate two complementary hypotheses. The first is the refusal of stigma. Although he was a pioneer and key player in activist cinema, Chris Marker refused to be associated with the dogmatism that characterized this genre and always emphasized artistic autonomy. The second hypothesis is his obsession with secrets and enchantment. The activist film collective that he founded and ran gave him a degree of invisibility while nonetheless being the product of an extremely charismatic organizational principle.
Source: Genèses
DOI: 10.3917/gen.099.0003
Author: Isabel Boni-Le Goff
Language: French
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4241236879