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After 2.5 years of enriching and insightful conversations around ethnography and film, mark your calendars for the last Ethnography Lab Film Night hosted by the wonderful Maya 😢
For the occasion, the Concordia Ethnography Lab is excited to partner up with Cinéma Public to screen the audacious and touching film Chronicle of a Summer. The film is a vanguard work of cinéma-vérité (cinéma of truth), term coined to refer to both the philosophical and ethnographic inquiries of filmmakers like Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. The screening will be followed by a discussion on Cinéma-vérité and Cinéma-direct with Maya Lamothe-Katrapani of the Ethnography Lab and Richard Brouillette, film producer, director, editor and programmer. Tw o other screenings are scheduled on May 4th and May 12th, but the discussion will only be on April 30th.
ABOUT THE FILM:
Chronicle of a Summer, 1961 (86 min)
In the summer of 1960, anthropologist filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin set out to chronicle the everyday lives of Parisians using a mixture of intimate interviews, debates and observations. Beginning with the provocative and eternal question “Are you happy?” and expanding to political issues, including the ongoing Algerian War, artists, factory workers, office employees, students and others open up to the camera to share their experiences, fears and aspirations. The result became one of the decade’s most influential films, and redefined the documentary form.
