Qui donc a rêvé ? (2022 digital transfer La Cinémathèque française)

Coffret Delphine Seyrig (Arte Éditions 2023). Le coffret contient : Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles de Chantal Akerman ; Aloïse - de Liliane de Kermadec ; Le jardin qui bascule - de Guy Gilles - Les lèvres rouges / Daughter of darkness - de Harry Kümel ; La musica - de Marguerite Duras et Paul Seban - Sois belle et tais-toi ! - de Delphine Seyrig ; Bonus 5 heures : Un regard sur les films, par Virginie Apiou (2023 - 5 x 9’) - Delphine Seyrig, vidéaste ! (2023)  Qui donc a rêvé, court métrage de Liliane de Kermadec (1965 - 23’) - Saute ma ville, court métrage de Chantal Akerman (1968 - 13’) - Entretien avec Natalia Akerman (2006) - Entretien avec Babette Mangolte, cheffe opératrice de Jeanne Dielman (2007) - Entretien avec Harry Kümel (2022) - Archives : Le journal du cinéma (1971) ; Féminin, Masculin (1972) ; Le monde du cinéma (1979) ; Cinéma au féminin (1975) ; Delphine Seyrig sur l’avortement (1972) ; Sur le tournage de La Musica (1966) ;   Marguerite Duras et La Musica (1967) ; La photographe - Dim Dam Dom (1968) ; Delphine Seyrig chante « Une fourmi et moi » (1971).

FR 1965. Director: Liliane de Kermadec. Sog.: ispirato al romanzo Attraverso lo specchio (1871) di Lewis Carroll. Scen.: Liliane de Kermadec, Hélène de Chatelain. F.: Jean Penzer. M.: Anne-Marie Cotret. Int.: Delphine Seyrig (la regina bianca), Roger Blin (il re nero), Stéphane Fey (il re bianco), Paulette Annen (la regina nera), Cécile Delpire (la giovane), André François (il cavaliere bianco), Dominique André (il cavaliere nero). Bn. 23 min

    Not released in Finland.

    Courtesy of Arte France. Digitized in 4K in 2022 by La Cinémathèque française at CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée laboratory, from a 35 mm print. Audio restored at L. E. Diapason laboratory.

    DCP from: La Cinémathèque française

    Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna 2024: Delphine Seyrig, Just Another Sorceress

    In the presence of Babette Mangolte, hosted by Émilie Cauquy, with an Italian interpreter.

    Viewed at Cinéma Lumière - Sala Scorsese, 28 June 2024

Zoé Richard (Bologna Catalogue 2024): " When in a 1975 TV appearance, she was asked the eternal question of how to define “women’s cinema”, Liliane de Kermadec replied: “As a woman, I’m looking for my identity. As a filmmaker, I’m looking for my language.” Cut through with feminist discourse, Liliane de Kermadec’s work has never ceased to be the stage on which she plays out her experimentation. Released in 1965, her second short film, Qui donc a rêvé?, is a bold and categorical illustration of this. This experimental film, shot in dream-like black and white, was inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. The young heroine, Alice, in a quest for power, runs into Delphine Seyrig, playing a somewhat vulnerable white queen. Qui donc a rêvé? stands out in its aesthetic virtuosity and hypnotic camera movements that plunge us into a dream. The colour red crops up briefly, like a surprise. Liliane de Kermadec has always approached feminism in her filmmaking in a nuanced way, and Qui donc a rêvé? is no exception. The young Alice, finally acceding to the throne as queen, is reduced to her physical appearance once she has been crowned. Delphine Seyrig heaps praise on her, exclaiming repeatedly, “You’re so beautiful!”, an ironic statement from one of the strongest voices in feminism. When the excitement of the film is over, these questions remain: what is the source of our imaginary life, and who has not had a dream? " Zoé Richard (Bologna Catalogue 2024)

AA: Liliane de Kermadec's playful, surrealist impressions on Through the Looking Glass. Black and white in scope, discontinuous, outdoors, intentional time lapse, waking up on the beach, "je cours", la Reine Blanche. After comes before. Who is the dreamer after all? And might Jonathan Miller have been inspired by Liliane de Kermadec in his remarkable Alice in Wonderland (1966)?