Young Devils in School + Winter Shooting
Dir: Jean Vigo
France, 16/70 minsmins, DCP
Young Devils in School – Zéro de Conduite, Rushes, Sound and Image
While reconstruction of L’Atalante as a major feature has captured critical attention and debate, we also know that in 1933 even contemporary audiences, critics and politicians grasped the dangerous messages of Vigo’s mini-epic of school rebellion and took their scissors to it while keeping it from the public for more than a decade. Still, alternative versions reached other countries – including a different, early version in Italy – and pieces remain. Together with the rushes, outtakes and on location footage of Vigo during the shoot, Young Devils in School helps us to better understand Vigo’s original vision.
Winter Shooting- L’Atalante,Rushes and Outtakes
Perhaps it speaks to the sheer power and beauty of L’Atalante that 40 years after its initial butchered release, critics and fans still seek to piece together Vigo’s vision – and debate the choices involved in that process. Bernard Eisenschitz, who was involved with Luce Vigo (daughter of Jean Vigo) in the 1990 reconstruction of this masterwork, takes us into the raw materials by which this complex film was re-envisioned and continues to be analyzed and changed today. An important vision of film as a tradition of viewership, curation and exploration.
3/12/2017 (Sun): Post-screening seminar with Kiki FUNG and Li Cheuk-to
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
Post-screening talk
Remarks
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