[Frameworks] Films about darkness

[Elizabeth McMahon]

Repulsion, by Roman Polanski.

On Thursday, November 22, 2018, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello frameworkers,
>
> We are doing a research on films and videos related to a general theme: "a
> certain darkness".
>
> We have done a list with completely dark films like the one created by
> Maurice Lemaitre named *Song of Rio Jim* (1978) but we also want to add
> some other films (documentary, fiction, etc) where the obscurity works as a
> metaphor or as an autoreflexive analysis.
>
> Here are two known examples by Chris Marker and Woody Allen:
>
> Sans Soleil (1983) Chris Marker
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDu7YOlVuE
>
> “The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in
> Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and
> also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it
> never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the be
> ginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see ha
> ppiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black.”
>
>
>  [image: image.png]
>
>
>
> The Rose Purple of Cairo (1984) Woody Allen
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ovyrTzuYY
>
> “Don’t turn the projector off. No, no. It’s getting black and we
> disappear.You don’t understant what is to disappear, to be nothing to be
> annihilated. Don’t turn the projector off.”
>
>
> [image: image.png]
> Do you have some ideas behind this issue?
>
> Some other suggestions or examples will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Albert
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>
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