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Chicago Cinema Forum presents:
ACÉPHALE
by Patrick Deval
Rediscovery of May '68 generation classic
from the Zanzibar film cycle (France, 1968, 56 minutes, 35mm, French w/ Eng. subs)
Sunday, December 16, 5:30pm
Cinema Borealis
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 4th floor
Filmmaker in person!
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On ZANZIBAR:
"The Zanzibar films and the dandies who made them form a little-known
chapter in the history of French cinema, one which has recently come to
the fore due to the efforts of Jackie Raynal and American scholar Sally
Shafto, whose book, The Zanzibar Film and the Dandies of May 1968 was
published this year. Clustering around Philippe Garrel and an enigmatic
French heiress named Sylvina Boissonnas, the Zanzibar clan created an
audacious body of work, mostly shot on 35mm, thanks to the generosity,
deep pockets, and hippie nature of Boissonnas. With 'production'
meetings held at La Coupole in Montparnasse, Boissonnas funded a dozen
soixante-huitards films." --Cinematheque Ontario
On ACÉPHALE:
"[The Zanzibar film] which best captures the anger and
despair of post-'68 Paris [...] a potent combo of vérité street scenes,
direct camera address, and avant-garde theatrics." --Amy Taubin, The
Village Voice
"With its title taken from Georges Bataille’s journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go
beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval’s film is the most literary of
the Zanzibar works. The film opens with an illustrative image: a head
in the process of being shaved, in close up. This image is accompanied
not by the sound of an electric razor but an electric saw, suggesting
the need to achieve a tabula rasa by radical means. The story follows
the adventures of a young man and his friends as they wander through a
barely recognizable post–May 1968 Paris. In documenting the by-gone
expressions and gestures of the ’68 generation in France, Acéphale
becomes something of an anthropological film that reveals the rites and
beliefs of the ideological novitiates. --Harvard Film Archive
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WHERE:
Cinema Borealis -- 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 4th floor
WHEN:
Sunday, December 16, 5:30pm
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The screening will be proceeded by a discussion
with filmmaker Patrick
Deval.
Special Thanks to James Bond & Cinema Borealis!
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