Street Desires. The Urban, a Matrix for a New Cinema.
MétisPresses| N° d'inventaire | 22175 |
| Format | 16.8 x 21 |
| Détails | 205 p., black and white illustrations, paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940563463 |
At the end of the 1950s, young artists from what was then called the New Wave began filming in the streets. Outside the studios, cameras on their hands, they mingled with the city crowds. Urban space then became the matrix of their creations. It allowed them to reflect the individual and collective challenges of a changing society and at the same time invent a new cinematic identity. Désirs de rue, through the analysis of short films by Eustache, Truffaut, Godard and other New Wave filmmakers, seeks to show how, through contact with the street, a language was born that expressed the deep currents of an era through impromptu and contingency.
At the end of the 1950s, young artists from what was then called the New Wave began filming in the streets. Outside the studios, cameras on their hands, they mingled with the city crowds. Urban space then became the matrix of their creations. It allowed them to reflect the individual and collective challenges of a changing society and at the same time invent a new cinematic identity. Désirs de rue, through the analysis of short films by Eustache, Truffaut, Godard and other New Wave filmmakers, seeks to show how, through contact with the street, a language was born that expressed the deep currents of an era through impromptu and contingency.