documentary – countervisuality

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (Stephen Schible, 2017)

Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick, 2016)

the delicacy and violence of touch, the act of invading a body through two dancers rehearsing in Vers Mathilde (2005) – their bodies entwined, arms wrapped around each other, hands making indentations in the flesh…

In India Song (1975), Duras’ actors never seem to speak. Instead, a separate soundtrack of voices made before the filming is played over their actions. The voices are sometimes of other people, sometimes those of the actors themselves. Duras’ aim here is to convey a sense of events long passed, events that have taken place on a universal, even a mythic dimension. Duras calls her superimposed dialogue: the voice off.

Marguerite Duras – Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)