The Tender Force of Valérie Massadian Maura Edmond and John Edmond March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care This project began in Melbourne’s Princes Park. Margot, Maura’s daughter, was ambling about in the sunshine while we discussed Milla, and its recent d...
48.8566° N, 2.3522° E, Winter Solstice 2017 Valérie Massadian March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care The real is leaders whose relationship to the world is only comprised of statistics, figures and data and have lost all sense of reality and humanity ...
Nasty laugh Milla, beautiful Milla Annabel Brady-Brown March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care Realised by the non-professional actor Séverine Jonckeere, Milla is said to be seventeen in the film’s press notes. But without that information her a...
Bressonian Resistance: On Valérie Massadian’s Nana Ela Bittencourt March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care Valérie Massadian’s first feature Nana (2011) revolves around three instances of death. In the first a pig is circled by a farmer, shot, then laid out...
The Body is a Fact Leo Goldsmith March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care A film in two parts. At first, in Mamoushka (2012), we hear a voice but we do not see a body. The voice tells us about the body — it is a body, we lea...
Letter to Kelyna Valérie Massadian March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care St Jean de la Forêt, July 2011 Kelyna, You don't know how to read yet, but you're learning. And as everything you do, you do it with rage. We hav...
Interview with Valérie Massadian: More Feeding, Less Screaming John Edmond and Maura Edmond March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care Valérie Massadian’s charismatic and raw interviews match her work. In this conversation she discusses her background, her approach to reality, and how...
Supreme Instants: Valérie Massadian’s Nana and Milla Michael Sicinski March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care There are no simple passkeys to understanding the cinema of Valérie Massadian, a body of work that is both mysterious and remarkably plainspoken. Othe...
Inventing is Prohibited Luc Chessel March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care Translated by Daniel Fairfax For anyone who, upon watching Valérie Massadian’s Milla (2017), was moved or startled by the film, I wonder what shoul...
Milla and Motherhood Andie Fox March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care The intimacy and intensity of motherhood is rarely depicted in film. Not only because as a subject mothering tends to be sanitised, patronised or redu...
