Rome is Burning : Portrait of Shirley Clarke

We enter a lounge where people smoke cigarettes and lie on sofas, talking politics and art. It's like being in Warhol’s Factory in the heart of New York. But it's early '68 in Paris, where André S. Labarthe and Noël Burch, surrounded by artists, plunge us into the work and thoughts of Shirley Clarke, who rejects the term "underground" used to describe her. Made of provocations and torments, her cinema is constructed as a genuine alternative to Hollywood cinema, and this film, part of the now-famous Filmmakers of Our Time collection, seeks to unravel its secrets.

Line Peyron
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