Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer
A Conversation with Robert Kramer
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-3-901644-95-5 (ISBN)
Description
An drei Tagen im Sommer 1997 trafen sich der französische Filmkritiker und Historiker Bernard Eisenschitz und der US-amerikanische Dokumentarfilmer, Schauspieler und Drehbuchautor Robert Kramer (geb. 1939) zu ausführlichen Gesprächen über Kramers Leben und Werk. Der freundschaftliche Austausch zwischen den beiden umfasst mehr als dreißig Jahre Filmschaffen. Er setzt mit Kramers frühen, aktivistischen Jahren und seinem Engagement für das Newsreel Kollektiv ein, behandelt wichtige Filmen wie "Ice" (1969) und "Milestones" (1975) und zeichnet Kramers allmähliche Verlagerung nach Europa nach, die in den späten 1970er Jahren zum Umzug nach Frankreich führte. Zwischen Europa, den USA, Portugal und Vietnam hin und her pendelnd, gelang es Kramer, kontinuierlich zu arbeiten und Filme wie "Doc's Kingdom" (1987), "Route One/USA" (1989) und "Point de départ/Starting Place" (1993) zu drehen. Kramer starb 1999.
Das Gespräch wurde 2001 auf Französisch unter dem Titel "Points de départ" veröffentlicht. Mehr als 20 Jahre später macht "Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer" dieses wichtige Dokument zum ersten Mal in seiner Originalsprache verfügbar. Ergänzt wird das Buch durch drei Essays Kramers aus den 1980er und 1990er Jahren sowie eine aktualisierte Bibliografie und Filmografie.
"Everyone mainly thinks of the movies as something that is being done to tell you. I think the first thing, for me at least, is to tell me, to give me some handle on what's really going on here." (Robert Kramer)
More details
Series
Edition
Erstausgabe
Language
English
Place of publication
Wien
Austria
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
100
Fotos in Farbe und Schwarzweiß
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Width: 17 cm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-901644-95-5 (9783901644955)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Volker Pantenburg (Author, Edited by, Foreword by)
Volker Pantenburg is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. His most recent book is Aggregatzusta¨nde bewegter Bilder (2022). Book publications in English include Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory (2015), Cinematographic Objects: Things and Operations (2015, Editor) and Screen Dynamics: Mapping the Borders of Cinema (Co-Editor, 2012). In 2015, he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut Berlin.
Bernard Eisenschitz (Author)
Bernard Eisenschitz is a French film critic, subtitler and historian based in Paris. He was a critic at Cahiers du cinéma and La Nouvelle Critique, and edited the journal Cinéma between 2001 and 2007. His books includeNicholas Ray: An American Journey (1990), Le cinéma allemand (1999), Fritz Lang au Travail (2011), Douglas Sirk, né Detlef Sierck (2022), and Boris Vassilievitch Barnet (2024).
Roberto Turigliatto (Author)
Roberto Turigliatto is former head of programming at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin and former director of Torino Film Festival. He collaborated with the Venice, Pesaro, Rotterdam and Locarno festivals and is co-director of the Fuori Orario program (RAI 3). He has published major collective works on new cinemas and books on Philippe Garrel, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Manoel de Oliveira, Julio Bressane, and others.
Volker Pantenburg is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. His most recent book is Aggregatzusta¨nde bewegter Bilder (2022). Book publications in English include Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory (2015), Cinematographic Objects: Things and Operations (2015, Editor) and Screen Dynamics: Mapping the Borders of Cinema (Co-Editor, 2012). In 2015, he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut Berlin.
Bernard Eisenschitz (Author)
Bernard Eisenschitz is a French film critic, subtitler and historian based in Paris. He was a critic at Cahiers du cinéma and La Nouvelle Critique, and edited the journal Cinéma between 2001 and 2007. His books includeNicholas Ray: An American Journey (1990), Le cinéma allemand (1999), Fritz Lang au Travail (2011), Douglas Sirk, né Detlef Sierck (2022), and Boris Vassilievitch Barnet (2024).
Roberto Turigliatto (Author)
Roberto Turigliatto is former head of programming at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin and former director of Torino Film Festival. He collaborated with the Venice, Pesaro, Rotterdam and Locarno festivals and is co-director of the Fuori Orario program (RAI 3). He has published major collective works on new cinemas and books on Philippe Garrel, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Manoel de Oliveira, Julio Bressane, and others.