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    Night Visionary, Philippe Grandrieux's Adventures in Perception

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    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    February 21-January 27, 2010

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    In his three feature films, Philippe Grandrieux has revealed his startlingly corporeal vision of a world in which the body and its drives remake cinematic form and content alike. Often compared to the work of Stan Brakhage, Grandrieux’s films similarly reject representational cinema in favor of a mode of filmmaking that, in Brakhage’s famous phrase, realizes “adventures in perception.” In Grandrieux’s case, this approach entails a radical reworking of the frame, offscreen space, lighting and even focus, at times edging the image towards the barely perceptible. No less radical is Grandrieux’s approach to sound, which is often distorted and accentuated, with dialogue kept to a careful minimum and music alternately ambient and blaring. Grandrieux’s is a cinema of vibrations and tremors in which image and sound seem to pulsate with a kind of furious life. Grandrieux will be in person for screenings of Sombre and A Lake.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        Tickets: $12 Special Event Tickets, Regular Screenings $9 General Admission, $7 Seniors, Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff

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        Dates:
        February 21-January 27, 2010

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        7pm

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