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Author Sally Shafto

Sally Shafto

A Research Associate at Williams College, Sally Shafto is a scholar of French and Francophone film. Her most recent publications include editing and translating the Writings of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (New York: Sequence Press, 2016).

“Slightly Out of Focus”: The Early Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Gerhard Richter

Sally Shafto
January 2022
Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard
Is an indistinct photograph a picture of a person at all? Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often exactly what we need? – Ludwig Wittge...
Introduction Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Two Interviews with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (1976 and 1984)

Sally Shafto
June 2017
Two Interviews with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
True to its title, the recently published Writings (New York: Sequence Press, 2016) by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet contains only a handful of the filmmakers’ interviews. It’s clear, though, that their...
Charles Bitsch

Adieu, Carolus (Charles Bitsch, 1931-2016)

Sally Shafto
September 2016
Feature Articles
It is often said that a film set is like a military campaign. Another analogy would be that of a professional kitchen (itself based on the military model), which after the eminent French chef Auguste Escoffier,...

Leaders in African Film Today: the 17th Festival du cinéma africain de Khouribga

Sally Shafto
October 2014
Festival Reports
Nowadays there are no more traditional storytellers. I think that a filmmaker can replace them. To be properly heard, a storyteller needs to know how to strike with his instruments, whether the tam-tam or a cam...

Response to Dimitrios Latsis’ review ofFilm, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls

Sally Shafto
June 2013
Book Reviews
Since so many academic books go unnoticed, it was initially a pleasure to see Dimitrios Latsis’ recent review of Angela dalle Vacche’s edited anthology, Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls (Palgrave Macm...

On Moroccan Identity: the 14th Festival National du Film

Sally Shafto
June 2013
Festival Reports
Very few countries, even in Europe, have a national film festival. It’s a masterstroke on the part of the government to have created and developed the FNF. – Salvatore Leocata, Director of the Festival indepen...

It all began in Khouribga: the 15th Festival du Cinéma Africain de Khouribga

Sally Shafto
August 2012
Festival Reports
“An African film is a miracle, like the rain.” – Youssef Ait Hamou “’No wind is favorable to a sailor who does not know what port he is headed for.’” – Seneca, quoted by Nour-Eddine Saïl I first heard of Kh...

The Arab Spring and Maghrebin Cinema: The 6th Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb, Saint Denis

Sally Shafto
June 2011
Festival Reports
“Ideas are on the street.” –Abu Othman Amro bnu Bahr al-Jahed (776 - 869) “The cinema is there to mend wounded souls.” – Egyptian filmmaker, Yousry Nasrallah “There is no better prospective project for a ...

Celebrating Amazigh Culture: The 5th National Festival of Amazigh Film

Sally Shafto
March 2011
Festival Reports
Organised by L'AMREC (Association marocaine de recherche et d'échanges culturels), (1) the 5th annual National Festival of Amazigh Film was held 15-18 December, 2010 at the Palais des Congrès in Ouarzazate. The...

Moroccan Cinema Alive: The 12th Festival National du Film, Tangier

Sally Shafto
March 2011
Festival Reports
“We are conscious of cinema’s role in society.” – Nour-Eddine Saïl, Director of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain Tangier: the city that inspired and attracted so many artists, writers and bohemians, call...

Questerbert on Moullet: An Interview with Marie-Christine Questerbert

Sally Shafto
October 2010
Feature Articles
Student of philosophy, traveller, actress maudit and filmmaker, Marie-Christine Questerbert, who appeared in Moullet’s Une Aventure de Billy le Kid (1971) and Anatomy of a Relationship (1975), discusses her life and career, and the travails of working with one of France’s more eccentric directors.

On Straub-Huillet’s Une Visite au Louvre (1)

Sally Shafto
December 2009
Feature Articles
Sally Shafto’s introduction sets the context for the transcript to the Straub’s film that follows.

Transcript to Straub & Huillet’s A Visit to the Louvre

Sally Shafto
December 2009
Feature Articles
Transcript of the dialogue, and description of visual and sound tracks to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s 2004 film on Cezanne.

Artistic Encounters: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet and Paul Cézanne

Sally Shafto
September 2009
Feature Articles
The French painter is the subject of two films by the Straubs, Une Visite au Louvre and, more significantly, Cézanne. Sally Shafto looks at the importance of his art and ideas on the Straubs.
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Luc Moullet, a Bootleg Filmmaker at the Centre Georges Pompidou

Sally Shafto
July 2009
Feature Articles
Luc Moullet is what the French call “un original”, an offbeat, quirky talent, who over a nearly fifty-year period has forged a unique filmography. Sally Shafto goes in search of what makes Moullet such an individualist.
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Remembering Michel Fournier

Sally Shafto
April 2009
In Memoriam: Michel Fournier 1945-2008, Special Dossiers
This past January while in Paris I tried to contact Michel Fournier, Philippe Garrel’s legendary cameraman on six films, from Marie pour Mémoire (1968) to Athanor (1972). I was getting ready to go to Bordea...
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Brave New World: Some Reflections on the Digital Revolution in General and Digital Cinema in Particular

Sally Shafto
February 2009
Feature Articles
As the effects of digital technology become increasing pervasive within contemporary culture, Sally Shafto discusses what uses it is put in a range of auteur films such as Jia Zhang Ke’s The World, Eric Rohmer’s The Lady and the Duke and Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten.
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“Mange ta soupe”: Introduction to the Bourseillers on Jean-Luc Godard

Sally Shafto
August 2008
Before the Revolution
Published here for the first time in English, translator Sally Shafto provides a brief context for the two pieces that follow by Antoine and Christophe Bourseiller on their encounters with Godard.
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Charles Bitsch’s Filmography and Publications

Sally Shafto
March 2008
Special Dossiers, The New Wave Remembered: Focus on Charles Bitsch
Partial Filmography of Bitsch’s own films 1953 episode of Les Trois rendez-vous 1963 “Cher baiser”, sketch film in Les Baisers 1964 “Lucky la chance”, sketch film in La Chance et l’amour 1969 Le Dernier h...
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Introduction to Dossier

Sally Shafto
March 2008
Special Dossiers, The New Wave Remembered: Focus on Charles Bitsch
When exactly is the 50th anniversary of the French Nouvelle Vague? Sally Shafto provides a brief rationale.
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Interview with Charles Bitsch

Sally Shafto
March 2008
Special Dossiers, The New Wave Remembered: Focus on Charles Bitsch
Wide-ranging interview in which Bitsch discusses his youthful cinéphilia, his association with Cahiers du Cinéma, and his work with Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, et al. So evocative, one can almost relive history in the making through his words.
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On Painting and History in Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma

Sally Shafto
July 2006
Special Dossiers, The Godard Museum
“What are all these paintings doing in a history of cinema?” The author gives an answer in her analysis of Godard’s monumental video work, which approximates André Malraux’s concept of the imaginary museum.
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Leap into the Void: Godard and the Painter

Sally Shafto
May 2006
Cinema and the Pictorial
“In painting, I know of no one who went further than Nicolas de Staël.” – Jean-Luc Godard. An insightful discussion of the profound affinities between the great painter and the equally great filmmaker who held his work in such high esteem.

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