The Negative Hands

director: Marguerite Duras

original title: Les Mains négatives

country: France

year: 1979

running time: 14 min.

synopsis

“Both films are made from unused footage for Le navire Night. The statues in Place de la Concorde and Maillol were too ostentatious for the empty shots of the intended film. Also, the shots are too figurative and, in the case of The Negative Hands, unsuccessful. I don't know what the technical problem was, but the red light looks more like a bloodstain.” Negative hands is the name of a painting technique associated with paintings in prehistoric caves.
Marguerite Duras

biography

The writer, playwright, screenwriter, and eventually director entered the world of film in the second half of the 1950s. Initially, she adapted her own works or wrote original scripts. Her independent film directing work begins in the 1970s. She was a completely original artist who brought modernism to cinema.

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director:

Marguerite Duras

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