Ex~Voto: Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are film-makers of the resistance. They don’t want to convince at all costs, but rather aim to induce a productive sense of doubt, leading to a dialectic between present and past, there and elsewhere, truth and lies, ideology and history. Like Godard, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi have a solid belief in the ontological power of the image, in its radiant permanence. (…) If their films are formally superb, it is because they are part of that category of film-makers who use formality as a dialectical means, rather than as an aim in itself. It’s also in this regard that they are political film-makers. Like all great cineasts, the Gianikians teach us to look anew. They are worried poets, who compose their films with scraps from the past to throw a stronger light on the present.
In this combined programme
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Visioni del deserto
Montages of images of the Sahara, filmed by a French explorer of the twenties
