London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will present a retrospective of the work of Marguerite Duras this summer.
In partnership with Another Gaze Editions, the programme will run from Thursday, July 18th to Sunday, August 25th.
Marguerite Duras was a prolific novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and filmmaker, born in 1914 in Gia Định, French Indochina (now Vietnam), and died in Paris in 1996.
Throughout her three-decade spanning filmmaking career, Duras – often adapting her own work, and then readapting these adaptations when they (still) failed to satisfy her – advocated for a “poor cinema”, railing against commercial productions, which she considered to be “chewed over, pre-digested, and served up for the consumption of a public whose intellectual faculties are made to work at twenty percent of their capacity”.
Another Gaze co-founder Daniella Shreir said: "This comprehensive retrospective will include new restorations alongside imported prints of rarely seen works, as well as special guests, invited speakers and newly commissioned essays contextualising Duras’s work."
On Thursday, June 6th the full programme will be announced and priority booking will open for ICA Members.
For details go to ica.art/films/duras.
In partnership with Another Gaze Editions, the programme will run from Thursday, July 18th to Sunday, August 25th.
Marguerite Duras was a prolific novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and filmmaker, born in 1914 in Gia Định, French Indochina (now Vietnam), and died in Paris in 1996.
Throughout her three-decade spanning filmmaking career, Duras – often adapting her own work, and then readapting these adaptations when they (still) failed to satisfy her – advocated for a “poor cinema”, railing against commercial productions, which she considered to be “chewed over, pre-digested, and served up for the consumption of a public whose intellectual faculties are made to work at twenty percent of their capacity”.
Another Gaze co-founder Daniella Shreir said: "This comprehensive retrospective will include new restorations alongside imported prints of rarely seen works, as well as special guests, invited speakers and newly commissioned essays contextualising Duras’s work."
On Thursday, June 6th the full programme will be announced and priority booking will open for ICA Members.
For details go to ica.art/films/duras.