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SUMMARY:Visage (dir. Tsai Ming-Liang\, 2009) - Catherine Derosier-Pouchous
  (Head of Cultural Production\, Louvre Museum) Song Hwee Lim (Senior Lectu
 rer in Film Studies\, University of Exeter) Isabelle McNeill (Philomathia 
 Fellow in French\, Trinity Hall\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Commissioned by the Louvre Museum for their art collection to 
 mark a centenary of filmmaking\, Tsai Ming-Liang’s masterpiece Visage (2
 009) is at once strange and visually stunning. Conceived as a film within 
 a film\, the plot loosely revolves around a Taiwanese film director’s at
 tempt to shoot the story of Salomé inside the Louvre\, inspired by Leonar
 do da Vinci’s painting St. John the Baptist\, which hangs in the museum.
  Shifting between reality – in the form of the director’s private life
  in Taipei and logistical problems with the shoot in Paris – and the ric
 hly infused scenes from the imaginary film that unfold in the Louvre’s p
 ublic and hidden spaces\, the scenes that compose the collaged narrative o
 f Visage are reminiscent of individual works of art constituted to form a 
 collection. Replete with references to films\, Visage also pays homage to 
 pioneers of the medium and in particular to the late French film director 
 François Truffaut.\n\nThe screening will be followed by a roundtable disc
 ussion with:\n\nCatherine Derosier-Pouchous (Head of Cultural Production\,
  Louvre Museum)\nSong Hwee Lim (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies\, Universi
 ty of Exeter)\nIsabelle McNeill (Philomathia Fellow in French\, Trinity Ha
 ll\, Cambridge)
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College\, Cambridge
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