{"id":27215,"date":"2024-08-14T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27215"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:18:55","slug":"jeux-des-reflets-et-de-la-vitesse-a-film-by-henri-chomette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/08\/14\/jeux-des-reflets-et-de-la-vitesse-a-film-by-henri-chomette\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse, a film by Henri Chomette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chomette1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chomette1.jpg\" alt=\"chomette1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Paris of 1925 seen through the camera of actor, director, screenwriter and brother of Ren\u00e9 Clair, Henri Chomette. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M1Z_cnIuhL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse<\/em><\/a> is one of Chomette&#8217;s earliest films, made before he graduated to features, and while it may be experimental in style it&#8217;s not at all amateurish. Many experimental films of the silent era are little more than arty home movies, filled with brief shots, abrupt edits and amateur theatrics. Chomette&#8217;s film is much more controlled, two minutes of abstraction created by mirrors and glass objects followed by a rapid journey through the Paris M\u00e9tro then along the river Seine. The M\u00e9tro journey features a couple of very skillful edits, like the moment when the train plunges down another tunnel to emerge in the middle of the river. Run this with a prestissimo score by Philip Glass and you&#8217;d have a French precursor to Godfrey Reggio&#8217;s <em>Koyaanisqatsi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chomette2-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chomette2.jpg\" alt=\"chomette2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/05\/paris-qui-dort-by-rene-clair\/\">Paris Qui Dort by Ren\u00e9 Clair<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/02\/entracte-by-rene-clair\/\">Entr\u2019acte by Ren\u00e9 Clair<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris of 1925 seen through the camera of actor, director, screenwriter and brother of Ren\u00e9 Clair, Henri Chomette. Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse is one of Chomette&#8217;s earliest films, made before he graduated to features, and while it may be experimental in style it&#8217;s not at all amateurish. Many experimental films of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/08\/14\/jeux-des-reflets-et-de-la-vitesse-a-film-by-henri-chomette\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse, a film by Henri Chomette&#8221;<\/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":[7],"tags":[13614,5261],"class_list":["post-27215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-henri-chomette","tag-rene-clair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-74X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27215","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=27215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}