Deleuze docu
Facsoflife is een nieuwe film over Deleuze en de lezingen die hij gaf aan de befaamde ParisVIII Universiteit. De film lijkt alleen geen grote distributie te hebben, dus zal wel lastig te vinden zijn. De filmmakers hebben wel een VodPod site met veel, naar ik aanneem, aan de film gerelateerd video materiaal (met Deleuze) (helaas zonder ondertiteling).
Uit de beschrijving van de site van het Documentaire Festival Marseille:
…In their first film, the Italian Silvia Maglioni and the Scot Graeme Thomson, Facs of life immediately announce their objective: to pass from the facts to facs (fawlties: the idea of a university), in other words a film about the utopia of imparting knowledge, and the accessibility of knowledge which is at once alive and vital. How do you feed the desire to sustain the creative impulse, to travel towards this future which animated the philosopher. What are the means needed for this endeavour? It stirs up this material through the very movements of the images that are summoned up and questioned.
Mixing, reframing, manipulating archives, lectures, interviews with former students and current-day opinions of students at what has now become Paris VIII in Saint-Denis; the film carries out a penetrating enquiry into the political and aesthetic echoes of the philosopher’s ideas. Editing and superimposing images as in the opening sequence – ‘fault lines’ and palimpsests that call to arms Jeff Wall, Virginia Woolf, Francis Ponge, Corbusier or Walter Benjamin…

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