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%202014%20by%20Thom%20Andersen.%20Courtesy%20and%20copyright%20the%20artist/index.jpg?itok=Ut0lAp6w "Thom Andersen, The Thoughts That Once We Had (film still), 2014. Courtesy and copyright the artist.")
Essay Film Festival: The Thoughts That Once We Had
25 Mar 2015
The film will be followed by a discussion with Thom Andersen and Michael Witt.
The UK premiere of Thom Andersen’s new film, The Thoughts That Once We Had is a nuanced exploration of the history of cinema, inspired by the work of Gilles Deleuze. Beautifully edited, it highlights Andersen’s longstanding passion for cinema, playfully moving across decades and genres.
“This meticulous product of years of reading and lecturing about Deleuze’s Cinéma... Thom Andersen jumps from close-ups of manual labour shown by Dovzhenko, to a montage of Marlene Dietrich’s face in a succession of films by von Sternberg, from the uncut scene of Mike Hammer asking Christina to read him Christina Rossetti’s poem twice, to breathtakingly beautiful shots of the sky and the sea excerpted from Godard…” (Bérénice Reynaud)
Michael Witt is author of Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian, Indiana University Press (2014).
3-5 Screenings: Full price tickets £9 each
6-8 Screenings: Full price tickets £8 each
The Thoughts That Once We Had, dir. Thom Andersen, USA 2015, 108 mins.
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%2c%202008%20by%20Peter%20von%20Bagh.%20Courtesy%20and%20copyright%20Illume/index.jpg?itok=t93A44JM "Peter von Bagh, Helsinki, Forever (film still), 2008. Courtesy and copyright Illume")
%2c%202013%20by%20Peter%20von%20Bagh.%20Courtesy%20and%20copyright%20Illume/index.jpg?itok=m36wFRxb "Peter von Bagh, Remembrance (film still), 2013. Courtesy and copyright Illume.")
%2c%202003%20by%20Thom%20Andersen.%20Courtesy%20and%20copyright%20the%20artist/index.jpg?itok=opxc6jz8 "Thom Andersen, Los Angeles plays itself (film still), 2003. Courtesy and copyright the artist.")
%2c%202012%20b/index.jpg?itok=iaJNZuJ- "The Otolith Group, People to be Resembling (film still), 2012, original photography by Isio Saba. Copyright the artists, courtesy the artists and project 88")
%2c%202011%20by%20Rania%20Stephan.%20Courtesy%20and%20copyright%20the%20artist/index.jpg?itok=awIB8gT4 "Rania Stephan, The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (film still), 2001. Courtesy and copyright the artist.")
%2c%202014%20by%20.%20Courtesy%20and%20copyright%20the%20artists/index.jpg?itok=LubZeb9b "Profession Documentarist (film still), 2014, Courtesy and copyright the artists.")