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November 8, 2009.MOV and Batang West Triangle Screenings: Jorgen Leth
A note from Jorgen Leth: “I will select some clips and discuss things like “pure filmmaking”, deconstruction, language, grammar, putting the single image above context, working with a single roll and “hypnotic implicity”, making films like notebooks, the existential feeling of time passing through a film scene, working with movements and time, inspirations like The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Godard, Cassavetes, Dreyer, Julie Rainer, Warhol, talk about “cinema pauvre, using Bolex, the film roll counts down of eternity, about fascination and curiosity as the motor for my filmmaking, about the necessity to reinvent film language, to question what is image, what is sound, what is editing, or discuss my confidence in chance. I see chance always as a gift in fiction as well as in documentary, my idea that film should be like poems, don’t know where it goes and why, never wrote a script, not even for my fiction films, the idea of studying human actions and being under a microscope, people doing simple things, facing camera, no need to move around and be busy etc., and basic thoughts like bringing order in chaos, the clarity of tableaux. There are many angles to talk about my method, as you can see – also how to travel, how to use your senses. I work with rules of game, as in “The Five Obstructions”, limitations, in some films camera can’t move, in other no editing. I would like to discuss all these kind of basic and maybe shocking ideas with the students.”
Jorgen Leth will conduct as Master Class on Nov.13, Friday at 2 p.m. Fully Booked Bonifacio High St. In cooperation with Khavn dela Cruz, Society of Film Archivists of the Philippines (SOFIA) and Uno Magazine.
Thanks to Rolly Palmes.
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Hi Erwin, I would just want to check if this one is for free. An experimental cinema instructor wants to bring his students here. Please email me at jcpullan@gmail.com
this was trully a brilliant event. thanks, erwin, for putting this together.
this was a wake up call i guess. jorgen leth is a very inspiring.
it was a great honor to have heard him talk about his films and his life.
Hi Erwin.
I was unable to attend the Jorgen Leth master class because I am based here in Saudi.
I would like to ask if your group was able to document the lecture and if I can get a copy of the lecture during my vacation in the Philippine this coming March 2010.
Best regards.
Christopher Gozum
0918 291 3166
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