À perte de vue / "As-Far-as-The-Eye-Can-See (At the Limit of Vision)", documentary (1997)
By Georges Bataille
À perte de vue / "As-Far-as-The-Eye-Can-See (At the Limit of Vision)", "How to grasp with naked hands the most fiery thinking of the century ? How to approach through film that which shies away whenever approached ? How can the cinema - "the art of image" as we say - welcome and let live the intolerable images woven in stories such as "Madame Edwarda" and "The Dead Man" ? In short, how to talk about Georges Bataille in a film when we know that film to be impossible ?" André S. Labarthe. "Comment saisir à mains nues la pensée la plus volcanique du siècle ? Comment approcher par le film ce qui se dérobe à toute approche ? Comment le cinéma -- "art de l'image", dit-on -- peut-il accueillir et laisser vivre les images inadmissibles qui tissent des récits tels que "Madame Edwara" et "Le Mort" ? Bref, comment parler de Georges Bataille dans un film quand on sait ce film impossible ?" André S. Labarthe. 50-minute documentary program co-produced by Amip-France 3. Director: André S. Labarthe well-known as co-founder and original developer of "Cinéma, de notre temps", here portrays the French writer Georges Bataille (1897-1962), whose work ventures, at the same time, into the fields of li…
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