Jay Rosenblatt
United States | 2017 | 11 min
World premiere
Language : English
Subtitle : French
In June 2009, the Kodak Company announced that it would no longer produce Kodachrome film. Using archive images, as so often in his work, Jay Rosenblatt undertakes the account of a period that has now ended, of a North America that has been transformed forever. Between interludes evoking the very materiality of the film, stories big and small unwind in the form of a triptych composed in chapters. Behind an essential poetic dimension, exacerbated by the title and the use of music in the soundtrack, a profoundly personal point of view is sketched out. These elegies, although they are achieved from existing material (of a particular nature, nonetheless, in this case, but we shall say no more so at to preserve the secrets of the film), bear witness above all to the perspective of Rosenblatt. While we recognise a shot that also appears in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s famous Rabbia (1962), the poetic momentum of the American filmmaker is, without a doubt, more nostalgic, like the once brilliant Kodachrome colours.
Emilie Bujès
