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CHRIS PETIT<br />

NEGATIVE SPACE<br />

(t.l. Spazio negativo)<br />

I VIDEO DI CHRIS PETIT<br />

Viaggio on the road sulle highway<br />

statunitensi intervallato<br />

da spezzoni di <strong>cinema</strong> classico<br />

e moderno (da Rossellini<br />

a Godard, da Tourneur a<br />

Fassbinder, da Hawks a<br />

Michael Snow) e da interviste<br />

con i critici Manny Farber<br />

e David Hickey.<br />

Non ci sono molti film o<br />

video dedicati alla critica, e<br />

in particolare alla critica <strong>cinema</strong>tografica.<br />

Un’eccezione<br />

particolarmente interessante<br />

e ambiziosa è quella di<br />

Negative Space, di Chris Petit,<br />

un video sperimentale di 39<br />

minuti realizzato per la BBC.<br />

[…] Il video di Petit, che<br />

prende il nome dall’unico<br />

libro <strong>del</strong> critico <strong>cinema</strong>tografico,<br />

pittore e insegnante<br />

Manny Farber, tratta <strong>del</strong> paesaggio<br />

e <strong>del</strong>la cultura americani,<br />

<strong>del</strong>l’ironia, <strong>del</strong>la memoria, di Las Vegas, <strong>del</strong>l’inizio<br />

<strong>del</strong> <strong>nuovo</strong> millennio, <strong>del</strong>la morte, <strong>del</strong> deserto, <strong>del</strong> rapporto<br />

tra film e video, <strong>del</strong>la pittura di J.M.W. Turner, di<br />

diversi film e di due critici, Farber e Dave Hickey.<br />

(Jonathan Rosenbaum, American beauty, “Chicago<br />

Reader”, 12 maggio 2000)<br />

sceneggiatura/screenplay: Chris Petit<br />

fotografia/photography (video, col.): Chris Petit<br />

montaggio/editing: Emma Matthews, Chris Petit<br />

suono/sound: Emma Matthews<br />

produzione/production: Keith Griffiths, Illuminations<br />

Television<br />

durata/running time: 39’<br />

origine/country: Gran Bretagna 1999<br />

A road trip on US highways<br />

alternated with clips from modern<br />

and classic <strong>cinema</strong> (from<br />

Rossellini to Godard, from<br />

Tourneur to Fassbinder, from<br />

Hawks to Michael Snow) and<br />

interviews with critics Manny<br />

Farber and David Hickey.<br />

There aren’t many films or<br />

videos about criticism, especially<br />

ones that perform the work of<br />

film criticism. An interesting<br />

and ambitious exception is<br />

Chris Petit’s Negative Space,<br />

an experimental 39 minute<br />

video made for BBC Tv […]<br />

Named after the only book by<br />

film critic, painter, and teacher<br />

Manny Farber, Petit’s video<br />

wrestles with American landscape<br />

and culture, irony, memory,<br />

Las Vegas, the beginning of<br />

a new millenium, death, desert,<br />

film versus video, J.M.W.<br />

Turner’s painting, several movies, as well as two critics, Faber<br />

and Dave Hickey. (Jonathan Rosenbaum, American beauty,<br />

“Chicago Reader”, 12th May 2000)<br />

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