Pascale Cassagnau's 'Future amnesia' Proposes a Third Cinema

Pascale Cassagnau's book 'Future amnesia : enquêtes sur un troisième cinéma' (isthme éditions) explores the concept of a 'third cinema' distinct from experimental film and video art. The work employs a non-exhaustive, archipelagic method, drawing connections between figures such as Philippe Garrel and Jeremy Deller, the 'Zanzibar moment' and the 'Gremlins effect', and Tanguy Viel with Tsai Min-liang. A key hypothesis, borrowed from André Bazin's article on Chris Marker's 'Lettre de Sibérie', posits the possibility of an 'essay documented by film'. The book is accompanied by a DVD of Jean-André Fieschi's 1966 film 'L'Accompagnement', edited by Jean Eustache, featuring Maurice Roche, Claude Ollier, and Marcelin Pleynet. The film documents a moment in 20th-century intellectual history at the intersection of music, art, and cinema.