Thursday, September 6. 2018
In My Room in 20 images
A few weeks ago on Twitter, I saw a set of hand-drawn study notes of Jean Painlevé's 1928 documentary short The Octopus, done by University of Toronto professor James Cahill. I loved how it gave me an impression of the visual shape and flow of the film, sight unseen, and asked James to view & sketch my favourite scene from Ulrich Köhler's IN MY ROOM (trailer), where Kirsi returns in her RV to protagonist Armin, they share a tender conversation as well as some ecstatic dancing, before she leaves again:
James Leo Cahill is a professor of Cinema and French at the University of Toronto and author of the forthcoming book Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Films of Jean Painlevé (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). "I sometimes draw films I write about in order to have a full account of them before my eyes in a single view. Drawing helps understand a film at the level of form, and know it differently. Plus drawing is fun!"
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