{"id":14971,"date":"2014-03-05T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T01:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14971"},"modified":"2014-03-05T01:42:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T01:42:53","slug":"les-statues-meurent-aussi-a-film-by-chris-marker-and-alain-resnais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/03\/05\/les-statues-meurent-aussi-a-film-by-chris-marker-and-alain-resnais\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Statues Meurent Aussi, a film by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When statues die they enter into art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a Resnais short I hadn’t seen before, and a proper collaboration this time between Resnais and Chris Marker. Les statues meurent aussi<\/em> (Statues Also Die<\/em>) was commissioned in 1950 by Pr\u00e9sence Africaine<\/em>, a pan-African magazine published in Paris. The film was released in 1953. The subject is African art as it relates to colonialism, and on that level has more in common with Marker’s preoccupations than those of Resnais; the colonial history of France has always been a touchy subject, and the original brief was for a short documentary about African art. The scenes in the second half of the film, showing black sportsmen and a jazz drummer, were censored until 1963. This copy at YouTube<\/a> is subtitled.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Toute la m\u00e9moire du monde, a film by Alain Resnais<\/a>
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When statues die they enter into art. This is a Resnais short I hadn’t seen before, and a proper collaboration this time between Resnais and Chris Marker. Les statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die) was commissioned in 1950 by Pr\u00e9sence Africaine, a pan-African magazine published in Paris. The film was released in 1953. The subject … Continue reading “Les Statues Meurent Aussi, a film by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7,14,41],"tags":[2384,88],"class_list":["post-14971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-politics","category-sculpture","tag-alain-resnais","tag-chris-marker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Tt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}