A l'occasion de la parution de l'ouvrage « The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927) », David Sheperd propose le 29 février 2016 à 17h15 (Anthropole 4030) une conférence intitulée « The Gospel According to Guy: a film of Christ by Alice Guy, the world's first female director ».
Résumé de la conférence
Illustrated with video clips, this lecture argues that the Alice Guy's 1906 film La Vie du Christ (Gaumont) was not merely unconventional, but in fact unprecedented, in its cinematic juxtaposing of Jesus's embrace of and by women with a masculine world which rejects both Christ and feminine concern. The lecture also scrutinizes and illustrates the dependence of Guy's vision on the French Bible illustrator, J.J. Tissot, whose peculiar strain of late nineteenth century French Catholicism encouraged him to expend extraordinary illustrative and narrative energy in documenting at various points, the role of the 'Holy women' of the canonical gospels. The lecture concludes with Guy's depiction of St. Veronica and considers what may have encouraged Guy to create this extraordinary film.
Contributeurs de l'ouvrage dirigé par David J. Sheperd : Alain Boillat, Jo-Ann Brant, Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Dwight Friesen, André Gaudreault, Terry Lindvall, Giuseppe Pucci, Valentine Robert, Barnes Tatum, Caroline Vander Stichele, Richard Walsh, Vivienne Westbrook, Reinhold Zwick.