The Darkroom

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  • ISBN 9781916809598
  • Dimensions: 132 x 231mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Mar 2025
  • Publisher: ERIS
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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“One must make films with this knowledge: there’s no point anymore. Let film meet its end, that’s the only cinema.”

The Darkroom contains the script for Marguerite Duras’s 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck). Between images of a truck in motion, juxtaposed voiceovers, and cutaways to Duras in conversation with Gérard Depardieu, Le camion turns the art of film into a means of enabling the viewer to engage multiple faculties—not only the visual and the aural, but also memory, imagination, and desire.

Also included here is a series of short essays in which Duras makes provocative connections between film and textuality, as well as a fascinating dialogue with Michelle Porte. Together amounting to a crucial contribution to the field of film theory, these texts make brilliantly apparent the depth and integrity of Duras’s aesthetic, philosophical, and political thinking.
Marguerite Duras (1914–96) was a French writer and filmmaker. Among her many works was the screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour.

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