Strange Sounds: The Recontexualisation of Score in the Films of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Clare Nina Norelli June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Disembodied voices that strain to conjure a melody; atmospheric percussion that sends a shiver through the soul; slithers of lounge guitar and sensual...
Vice and Vision: Magnifying Sergio Martino for The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013) Kat Ellinger June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani The sequence when Barbara explodes on the glass body is like the flashback in The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh. It’s a scene that really struck me and we...
The Gaze in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Amer (2009) Michael Sicinski June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Throughout Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s 2009 debut feature Amer, the most prominent image is an extreme close-up of a pair of eyes. These are eye...
Sensorial Experimentation in O is for Orgasm (and Its Spectator) David Evan Richard June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani explain that their modus operandi is to tell stories “in a sensual, physical way,” ensuring that they are enjoyed “as ...
The Strange Shape of Their Cinema’s Body Jeremi Szaniawski June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani redefine the limits of cinematic grammar, and, further, of the cinematic body – a fascinating two-headed creature, wit...
The Gender(s) of Genre in Cattet and Forzani’s Ambisexual Cinema Anton Bitel June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani The strange cinematic experiments of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani grow over the graves of departed genres. Their shorts and their first two feature...
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani John Edmond and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani This dossier coincides with retrospectives of the work of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Queensl...
Facial Landscapes: Elina Löwensohn and Let the Corpses Tan (2017) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Our planet has provided the most beautiful and ever changing natural landscapes in the form of mountains, oceans, forests and deserts. Human beings re...
Interview with Ève Commenge Jeremi Szaniawski June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Behind the success-story of filmmaking couple Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani is that of producer Ève Commenge. These three French expatriates have de...
A Language of Their Own: An Introduction to Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Christoph Huber June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Making a splash on the festival circuit with their feature debut Amer (2009), Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani stunned critics and audiences alike with...
Doors and Their Secrets: The Legacy of 1940s Hollywood in The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013) Martyn Conterio June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears begins with droning noise over production company credits. The industrial rumbling develops into a rhythmic sw...
Fragments of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Anton Bitel June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani On 22 February 2018, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Let the Corpses Tan was screened at Ciné Lumière in London's Institut Français Royaume-Uni, wit...
