Paris 1900
In its latest issue, the film magazine 24 images dedicates a special feature to the theme of our symposium, Film Archives Beget Films, to be held on April 28-29. In conjunction with this editorial coverage, and just ahead of the symposium, we are presenting a program entirely focused on this theme; the re-use of archival film footage in films. While not aiming to be exhaustive, the program highlights the diversity of practices from an aesthetic and historical perspective.
A chronicle of life in Paris between 1900 and 1914 using documents from the time and excerpts from over 700 films, often held up as a example of how to edit. Alain Resnais worked on the film as assistant director and production supervisor. (Institut Français)
Nicole Vedrès
Nicole Vedrès was a French author, columnist, essayist, journalist, screenwriter, and film director, specializing in archival montage films. An important figure in the post-war French cultural world, she signed several articles under different names, including “Nathan” and “Rais.” She began her career as a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker in 1947, with Paris 1900, where, assisted by Yannick Bellon and Alain Resnais, she explored the archives of current affairs of the Belle Époque. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won both the Louis-Delluc Prize. and the Méliès Prize. In 1949, her film Life Begins Tomorrow proposes in a sensitive and modern way, like a docufiction, to watch Jean-Pierre Aumont who portrays a young provincial commercial employee disgusted by his time, at the meeting of French intellectuals like Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, and Jacques Prévert. She was awarded the Durchon-Louvet Prize from the French Academy in 1961 for her life's work.
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