The Darkroom (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781967751624)

"One must make films with this knowledge: there's no point anymore. Let film meet its end, that's the only cinema."

The Darkroom contains the script for Marguerite Duras's 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck). Between images of a truck in motion, juxtaposed voiceovers, and cutaways to Duras in conversation with Gérard Depardieu, Le camion turns the art of film into a means of enabling the viewer to engage multiple faculties--not only the visual and the aural, but also memory, imagination, and desire.

Also included here is a series of short essays in which Duras makes provocative connections between film and textuality, as well as a fascinating dialogue with Michelle Porte. Together amounting to a crucial contribution to the field of film theory, these texts make brilliantly apparent the depth and integrity of Duras's aesthetic, philosophical, and political thinking.

Author: Marguerite Duras
ISBN-10: 1967751625
ISBN-13: 9781967751624
Publisher: Eris
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d