Jérôme Game's Flip Book Blends Poetry and Film Studies
Jérôme Game, a poet and film studies professor at the American University of Paris, has published "Flip-Book" with Éditions de l'Attente / Le triangle. The unpaginated book comprises sixteen film descriptions, each crafted as a "plan-séquence" aesthetic, exploring how writing can reenact cinematic gestures like close-ups. Game uses descriptions from films such as John Cassavetes' "Meurtre d'un bookmaker chinois," Claire Denis' "Beau travail," and Larry Clark's "Wassup' Rockers" to disjoin language elements without harming emotion or memory. The work aims to decalibrate language and evoke a desire to go to the cinema, referencing Bresson's notion of "something too unknown until now."
Key facts
- Jérôme Game is a poet and writer who teaches film studies at the American University of Paris.
- Flip-Book is published by Éditions de l'Attente / Le triangle.
- The book is unpaginated and consists of sixteen film descriptions.
- Each description follows a 'plan-séquence' aesthetic.
- Game explores how words can reenact cinematic gestures like close-ups.
- Films referenced include Cassavetes' 'Meurtre d'un bookmaker chinois', Denis' 'Beau travail', and Clark's 'Wassup' Rockers'.
- The work aims to decalibrate language and evoke emotion and memory.
- The book references Bresson's idea of cinema as 'something too unknown until now'.
Entities
Artists
- Jérôme Game
- John Cassavetes
- Claire Denis
- Larry Clark
- Robert Bresson
Institutions
- American University of Paris
- Éditions de l'Attente
- Le triangle
Locations
- Paris
- France
Sources
- artpress —