The possibilities of this format could then also make the film legible as a «text,» a Lehrstück, or «teaching play,» to use a Brechtian term, or as a piece of «cinematographic écriture,» in order to use a vocabulary closer to the allusions of riddles and deconstruction. Such an edition, however, of course cannot provide the effects of the screen presence. For this, we still need the movie theatres and the cultural occasions that again allow such a film to become an event.

 

Translation: Brian Currid