Six et demi, onze

  • Thursday, Mar 17, 2016

    7 PM (122 mins)
    BAMPFA

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Six et demi, onze

(Six and a Half by Eleven)

Jean Epstein
France, 1927

Archival Prints!

  • Lecture & Booksigning
    Sarah Keller

    Keller, assistant professor of art and cinema studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, is coeditor of the collection Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations.

  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    Judith Rosenberg

    on piano

PRECEDED BY: SA TÊTE (HIS HEAD) (Jean Epstein, France, 1929). A young man is tried for a murder he did not commit. (36 mins, Silent, French intertitles with English electronic titling, B&W, 35mm, From La Cinémathèque française)

Two brothers, practical Jérôme and the younger Jean, inherit the family fortune. A surrealist at heart, in love with love and death, Jean soon disappears, having spirited his beloved Marie, an opera singer, to a romantic seaside villa. But Marie can’t be owned. Two other objects of desire are entwined in Jean’s imagination and the film’s plot: a Kodak and a pistol. How a gun and a camera speak to each other is one of several prescient themes Epstein develops through entirely visual means—superimposition, montage, startling close-ups—in this film that should be better known.

Judy Bloch

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Marie Epstein

Cinematographer

  • Georges Périnal

Print Info

  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 86 mins

Source

  • Cinémathèque Française

Additional Info

  • French intertitles with English electronic titling