Histoire(s) de l’art: curating the cinema of Vincent Dieutre

dc.contributor.authorO'Dwyer, Jules
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-31T12:13:00Z
dc.date.available2019-01-31T12:52:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractOver the last twenty years, Vincent Dieutre has established himself as a unique voice in French experimental cinema. In this article, I examine the curatorial logic of Dieutre’s queer cinema through a close reading of Leçons de ténèbres (1999)—a multilayered essay film that simultaneously depicts the filmmaker’s protracted breakup with his ailing partner, a journey from the Netherlands through to Southern Italy, and an intersensory meditation on Caravaggist aesthetics. While Dieutre’s work is commonly characterised by long and languorous travelling shots, I argue that his interest lies not only in mapping vast stretches of space, but in excavating layers of time. In Leçons de ténèbres, processes of archival reconfiguration are achieved through modes of curation; the shifting relation between word and image subtly recalibrates the relation between the past and present. Drawing on Brian Glavey’s recent account of queer ekphrasis, as well as a broader context of verbal visual relations in gay culture, I explore the ways in which Dieutre’s curatorial methods allows us to rethink relations between sexuality, temporality and aesthetics.en
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dc.identifier.citationO’Dwyer, J. (2019) ‘Histoire(s) de l’art: curating the cinema of Vincent Dieutre’, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 16, pp. 53-66. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.16.04en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.16.04
dc.identifier.endpage66
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued16
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage53
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7397
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue16/ArticleODwyer.pdf
dc.rights© 2019, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCurationen
dc.subjectEkphrasisen
dc.subjectAutofictionen
dc.subjectEssay filmen
dc.subjectQueer space and timeen
dc.titleHistoire(s) de l’art: curating the cinema of Vincent Dieutreen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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