Thursday, August 28, 2014, 7:00 PM & 9:15 PM
Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Directed by Chris Marker
Marker explores the power of the photograph in these remarkable cine-essays comprised entirely of still images. In French with English subtitles.
If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966)
Run time: 49min
Admired by both Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, Marker’s rumination on the meaning of the still image comprises more than 800 pictures shot in 26 countries.
Remembrance of Things to Come (2001)
Run time: 42min
This dazzlingly discursive profile of photographer Denise Bellon uses hundreds of her photographs to illuminate her life, while touching on everything from the history of surrealism to gypsies to World War II.
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