Film Talk/ Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Описание: Program curator Kiki Fung explores the creative lives and legacies of Britain's foremost filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and discusses the works of these two audacious filmmakers and how the bold power of their screen collaborations has continued to bewitch audiences for decades.

Kiki Fung is a film critic and Programme Consultant for Hong Kong International Film Festival, and was former Head Programmer for the Brisbane International Film Festival and the Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival. She has guest curated for the Brisbane Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and the Hong Kong Government's Film Programmes Office.

The credits “Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger” not only refers to an unprecedented creative partnership in the history of cinema; the works of these two audacious filmmakers also represent a special entity that cherished filmmaking as a collaborative work that transcends borders, disciplines, and boundaries – in all senses of the words.

The English Powell and Hungarian émigré Pressburger worked with long-term artistic allies from various nations across Europe, and at the very core of their output was a wondrous convergence of diverse personalities, cultures, and ideologies – an enthusiastic coalescence of mutual respect and celebration of difference.

War, identity, friendship, romance, desire: the cinema of Powell and Pressburger is firmly grounded in reality, and yet distinguished in the way they render, imagine, and transcend reality. Whether a miraculous dissolve from glowing monochrome to splendid Technicolour (as in A Matter of Life and Death 1946), an entrancing ballet sequence uniting the theatricality of stage and the expressive power of cinema (The Red Shoes 1948), or a lyrical shot of lovers waltzing down an impossible two-dimensional spiral staircase (The Tales of Hoffmann 1951), their cinema yearns to (re)invigorate, and bring endless joy through experimentation. Together they conceived some of cinema’s most original and inventive narratives.

Recorded at the Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art
Sat 2 Mar 2024

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