SUR QUELQUES FILMS VRAIMENT SONORES - Aimé Agnel

12.5 x 18.5 cm / 160 pages / February 2018

isbn : 978-2-35137-247-0

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“Does the synchronism of sounds and images to which cinema has accustomed us prevent us from recognizing and tasting the specificity and heterogeneity of listening and looking? (...) Acknowledged in their differences, sound and image nevertheless work, as Robert Bresson recommended, “each in turn through a kind of relay”, or cohabit, as in the films of Jean-Luc Godard, in a tension of their disparity, enabling us to hear them truly together without losing their respective qualities and strengths. It's through differentiation that we gain access to complexity."

Aimé Agnel talks about some of these “truly sonorous” films.

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Among his many activities related to cinema, psychoanalysis and sound, Aimé Agnel has been a professor at IDHEC, a lecturer at the Université de Vincennes (Département Cinéma), sound editor for Fernand Deligny and Jean-Pierre Daniel's Le moindre geste and Sergio Castilla's La Storia, and an actor in Jean-Marie Straub's L'Aquarium et la Nation, among others. His books include L'Homme au tablier, le jeu des contraires dans les films de Ford et Hitchcock and L'ennui, une psychologie à l'œuvre.