Rapt with Liberté et Patrie

Literary Adaptation II: Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

7:00 PM screening introduced and followed by a Q&A with Michael Witt.

Liberté et Patrie 
Freedom and Fatherland
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, 2002, 22 min
In French with English subtitles.

with

Rapt
The Kidnapping
Dir. Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1934, 83 min
In French with English subtitles.

7pm screening introduced and followed by a conversation with Michael Witt, professor and author

Swiss author Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz’s writings were central to Godard’s introduction to literature as a child and remained a touchstone for him throughout his career. Ramuz’s books, often set in the Swiss canton of Vaud, have also provided source material for numerous film adaptations, including one of Swiss cinema’s landmark early sound films, the dark Alpine revenge melodrama Rapt. Of Godard’s numerous proposed Ramuz adaptations, he only completed the autobiographical video essay Liberté et patrie, made in collaboration with Anne-Marie Miéville. Inspired by Ramuz’s 1910 novel Aimé Pache, peintre vaudois (‘Aimé Pache, Vaudois painter’), Miéville and Godard appropriated Pache as a means of looking back on their own lives and trajectories.

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