Swiss film festival Vision du Lille will pay tribute to the work of American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt at its 57th edition, which will run from April 17th to 26th.
Reichardt, who will be the festival’s “guest of honor,” will give master classes and hold a retrospective exhibition of his work. The latest feature film “The Mastermind” will also be screened.
VdR Artistic Director Emily Buges said, “Kelly Reichardt sketches fragment after fragment of history, inhabiting a story of astonishing sophistication and elegance, revealing a fascinating relationship with reality through a rejection of the spectacular and delicate attention to detail.”
Reichardt has shot nine feature films and several short films during her 30-year career, including “Meek’s Cutoff,” “First Cow” and “Certain Women.” A common thread in her work is a focus on those left behind by the American Dream.
The film festival commented as follows: “Despite its roots in fiction, Reichardt’s work resembles ‘real cinema’ in many ways. A certain anti-sensualism, an economical mise-en-scène, a certain narrative and formal restraint, a considerable amount of time spent on location scouting, adapting the script to the filming situation, and immersing her team in the living environment on set, form the very basis of her unique and characteristic approach and approach.”
“Through their attention to everyday gestures, places, and liminality, filmmakers transform fiction into sensitive and ethical tools for observing the world.”
This tribute is part of a collaboration between the Cinémathèque Suisse and the ECAL University of Arts and Design Lausanne Film Department, as well as with the Prada Foundation, which began several years ago.
The full program for the 57th edition of Visions du Réel will be published on March 25th.
