Claire Denis - Videos

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director and Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher, author and writer discuss Denis's film "35 Shots of Rum." In this discussion Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy talk about family dynamics, love, incest, ritual, suicide, the Caribbean, colonialism, Alex Descas, May 68, Yasujir? Ozu, "The Intruder," and the artist formally known as Prince. This is the fourth lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director talking about her script writing process for her latest film "To the Devil" and the control that a director has. In this lecture Claire Denis discusses biopics, fiction, documentary, Jean Bena, Alukus, storytelling, historical research, HD vs. film, myth, narration and colonialism in relationship to French Guiana, Suriname, France, war, legal issues, her film "The Intruder," Jean-Luc Nancy, gold mining, forests, slavery and Amerindians focusing on body language and acting. This is the second lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director talking about the movie theater as a medium, violence and violation, and the responsibility of a filmmaker. In this lecture Claire Denis discusses Jean-Luc Nancy, culture, sadomasochism, Georges Bataille, fantasy, film, production budgets, will and pleasure in relationship to her film "35 Shots of Rum" and Yasujir? Ozu's "Late Spring," focusing on nostalgia and longing. This is the third lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director talking about narration, editing and time in the film making process. In this lecture, Claire Denis discusses different types of narrative and the sequence of a film, sexism in Italian TV, short films, Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," the rules or laws of narrative in relation to flashbacks and flashforwards, prediction, video art, the freedom of scriptwriting in relationship to the commercial demands of the film industry focusing on risk taking, power and colonialism. This is the seventh lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis talking about storytelling, perspective, identity, Deleuze, states, migration, movement, nomadic, immigration, gender, sexuality, suicide, Thin Red Line and White Material; lecturing on change, film, aesthetic, dreams, memory and revealing the methods and questions involved in developing cultural anthropology in cinema and theory. European Graduate School

Claire Denis talking about actors, relations, disguises, Billy Budd, Melville, Britten, Claggart, Deleuze, Wings of Desire, Wenders, static, movement, Beau Travail, living death, deception, risk,; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis taking about Goddard, intrusion, fiction and documentary, characters, present and past, train travel, Paris, and 35 Shots of Rum; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. Public lecture open for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis talking about Fernando Pessoa, fate, movement, the unknown, point-of-view, trains, time and space, perspective, narrative, context; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis presents her work at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and describes her experiences during the production. (In French, poor audio)

35 Shots of Rum is the story of a father and daughter living in a working class Parisian neighborhood. The daughter, Josephine, a university student; is on the verge of leaving the family nest and making her own way in the world. She feels obliged to stay and take care of her father, Lionel, filling the role her mother used to have.

Jean-Luc Nancy and French filmmaker Claire Denis discuss her film of his book L'intrus / The Intruder. They recall their first conversation about it two years previously at European Graduate School and describe their particular aspects on the film. Clair describes the process of the adapting the novel to a fictional structure. Nancy calls it an 'adoption'.

Claire Denis, a director talking about the film making process, expressing what she wants to achieve in each individual shot, scene, or film. European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Film Program Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe 2003.

Trailer of the film Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis (2001)

Nenette and Boni by Claire Denis 1996, is a richly sensual and rewarding film that pulls the viewer into the uniquely sensual and at times almost hallucinatory experience of adolescence.