Founded on the analysis of two major films in Jean Epstein’s work, Finis Terræ (1929) and Le Tempestaire (1947), this essay highlights the relationship between photogénie, the axis around which revolves Epstein’s film theory, and the representation of the landscape; a relationship involving precisely the notion of cinéstase. In both films landscape represents a place where the plot plays but a little role; even if the story resists, the images go beyond the narration moving towards the dimension of the cinéstase. In so doing, they show – in Finis Terræ – the figural value of the Epsteinian image, torn between what we see and what that very same image shows and hides at the same time; in Le Tempestaire, the philosophical and hermeneutic dimension of the films made by Epstein, evident in what the director calls the « photogénie of the sacred ».
De Finis Terræ à Le Tempestaire : la cinéstase et le sacré dans l'œuvre de Jean Epstein
Chiara Tognolotti;
2021-01-01
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Founded on the analysis of two major films in Jean Epstein’s work, Finis Terræ (1929) and Le Tempestaire (1947), this essay highlights the relationship between photogénie, the axis around which revolves Epstein’s film theory, and the representation of the landscape; a relationship involving precisely the notion of cinéstase. In both films landscape represents a place where the plot plays but a little role; even if the story resists, the images go beyond the narration moving towards the dimension of the cinéstase. In so doing, they show – in Finis Terræ – the figural value of the Epsteinian image, torn between what we see and what that very same image shows and hides at the same time; in Le Tempestaire, the philosophical and hermeneutic dimension of the films made by Epstein, evident in what the director calls the « photogénie of the sacred ».| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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