Screening
Une histoire du cinéma, vol. 19
05 Nov 2025
05 Nov 2025
The event is over
Among the screenings in “A history of cinema”, Wavelength is being shown as part of a composite programme, accompanied by other films created in the same year – mainly in Europe – and which seem quite far apart in their creation. 15/67 TV by Austrian director Kurt Kren (1929-1998) is made up of five short sequences, filmed inside a café in Venice, from the same point of view. The images are repeated in a structure with noticeable musicality.
Shot in December 1966 in a New York loft belonging to Canadian artist Michael Snow (1928-2023), Wavelength is one of the most talked about experimental film of all time. The long, continuous zoom-in shot inside a room, which is sustained while a sinusoidal sound crescendos in the soundtrack, marked artists, filmmakers, and critics at the time and continues to be the subject of tireless investigation.
In jüm-jüm by German filmmakers Dore O. (1946-2022) and Werner Nekes (1944-2017), shots of a young girl sitting on a swing are reassembled in a rhythmic manner, giving the oscillatory movement a counter-intuitive staccato tempo.
The random association highlights an opposition at first sight between the long zoom-in imagined by Michael Snow and the rhetoric of the syncopation and jerky movement used in 15/67 TV and jüm-jüm. The juxtaposition is revelatory: beneath the appearance of a sequence shot, Wavelength is actually a construction, the product of an optical and photochemical DIY project.
Programme :
Kurt Kren, 15/67 TV, 1967, 16 mm, black and white, silent, 4 min
Michael Snow, Wavelength, 1967, 16 mm, colour, with sound, 45 min
Werner Nekes and Dore O., jüm-jüm, 1967, 16 mm, colour, with sound, 10 min
“Une histoire du cinéma” (A history of cinema) was the title of the first exhibition dedicated to experimental and avant-garde films organised by the Centre Pompidou (1976 and 1977). These sessions are a reformulation of the original programmes and are held alongside the publication of L’Histoire d’une histoire du cinéma (Paris Expérimental/Centre Pompidou, 2023), offering a glimpse into the Museum’s historic collection and working backwards through its past.
Where
Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), Paris
2 rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
When
05 Nov 2025
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