The creative process : contradictions, ethics, (re)interpretations

The print version of the book Amos Gitai et l'enjeu des archives, resulting from the symposium organized by Amos Gitai at the Collège de France, was published in March 2021 by Éditions Sébastien Moreu(www.sebastienmoreu.com), with the support of the Collège de France. The digital version was published in June 2021 by The Collège de France Publishing Department, on the OpenEdition Books platform ( freemium open access).

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai and the challenge of archives

Edited by Jean-Michel Frodon
Foreword by Patrick Boucheron

Gitaï A. et Frodon J.-M. (dir.), Amos Gitai et l'enjeu des archives, Paris, Éditions Sébastien Moreu, 2021, 272 p.

ISBN: 978-2-9567147-7-4
Price: €14
Publication date : March 10, 2021

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Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai and the challenge of archives

Edited by Jean-Michel Frodon

Gitaï A. and Frodon J.-M. (dir.), Amos Gitai et l'enjeu des archives, Paris, The Collège de France Publishing Department, 2021.

ISBN : 978-2-7226-0579-4
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Publication date : June 30, 2021

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The creative process : contradictions, ethics, (re)interpretations

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai and the challenge of archives

Edited by Jean-Michel Frodon Foreword by Patrick Boucheron

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai and the challenge of archives

Edited by Jean-Michel Frodon

Documents and media

Program

Opening

Bruno Maurice, accordion

Reading of excerpts from Mont Carmel, by Amos Gitaï

The work of a living filmmaker in the world's cinematheques (the example of Amos Gitaï's films)

Music and memory : how can we question the tension between the act of creation and the recollection of the past ?

Theater and context : the relationship with heritage

A challenge of memory : the work of a contemporary artist confronted with a major historical event. Amos Gitaï's film archives, a challenge for BnF

Decolonizing the imaginary

Ethics and documents in Amos Gitai's film writing

Learning, trial and error, creating : " Plus tard tu comprendras ", an archive case study

Golem l'Esprit de l'Exil : The Visual Style as a Pictorial Language

The Munio Weinraub legacy : architecture, between art and social utility

Design is Meant for People

Munio Weinraub and the Bauhaus legacy

Introduction

Why does an artist decide to donate drafts of his work ? What do these documents consist of in the case of a filmmaker ? Amos Gitaï's archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Stanford University, etc

Studying the history of Israel through the cinema of Amos Gitai

The reinvention of a language

Louis Sclavis, musician

Kioomars Musayyebi, Iranian santur

Options. Cinema in India, the Example of Ritvik Ghatak

The Rise of Black African Cinema

An Illustrated Lecture on Brazilian Cinema Novo, Tracing Its Rise and Fall as Well as Its Continuing Implications for Filmmaking Today

How Amos Gitaï's cinema is an archive

Cinema as Resistance: Dziga Vertov and Serguei Eisenstein

Conclusion

See also

Edited by Jean-Michel Frodon
Foreword by Patrick Boucheron