The Darkroom

By: Duras, Marguerite

"One must make films with this knowledge: there's no point anymore. Let film meet its end, that's the only cinema."

The Darkroom contains the script for Marguerite Duras's 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck). Between images of a truck in motion, juxtaposed voiceovers, and cutaways to Duras in conversation with G rard Depardieu, Le camion turns the art of film into a means of enabling the viewer to engage multiple faculties--not only the visual and the aural, but also memory, imagination, and desire.

Also included here is a series of short essays in which Duras makes provocative connections between film and textuality, as well as a fascinating dialogue with Michelle Porte. Together amounting to a crucial contribution to the field of film theory, these texts make brilliantly apparent the depth and integrity of Duras's aesthetic, philosophical, and political thinking.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1967751625
• ISBN13: 9781967751624
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Eris
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"