Letter to Jean Rouch + Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Letter to Jean Rouch (Lettre à Jean Rouch) Eric Pauwels, Belgium, 1994, 6 min., VOSE, DCP
Pauwels, a student of Jean Rouch at the Sorbonne, wrote him a brief letter that proved crucial for understanding the approach to filmmaking by both professor and student. During a trip they took together to Japan, Pauwels asked Rouch, for example, how he edited his films, and the professor explained the concept of potlatchwhich will be key to Dream films.

Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Voyage iconographique: Le martyre de Saint Sébastien), Eric Pauwels, Belgium, 1989, 52 min., VOSE, DCP
Conceived as a travelogue, the film is a journey through Europe in an attempt to find some thirty depictions of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. The film aims to be a kind of rite of passage, an imagined narrative… imagined because, since no original representation of this saint exists, he could be portrayed in any way imaginable.

Sessions:

Wednesday 15.09.21 · 19:30 Letter to Jean Rouch + Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian + Presentation of the 7th edition of 3XDOC + Colloquium with Eric Pauwels (filmmaker) and Guillermo G. Peydró (programmer)