Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger
A retrospective of Powell & Pressburger’s productions is the latest major BFI season and marks the most extensive celebration of their work ever undertaken. It includes new BFI restorations, remasters of Powell’s early films, titles Pressburger wrote for others and a major exhibition drawn from the collections of the BFI National Archive.
Invisible Women and T A P E Collective have been working together with Zodiac Film Club’s Sarah Cleaver and video essayist Pavan Bivigou to produce creative and editorial responses.
Zodiac Film Club curates a gif library of Powell & Pressburger moments to express everything you need in one short moving image clip. Dive into the collection here.
Why gifs you ask? Sarah Cleaver from Zodiac Film Club explores this very very question as she writes: “In filmgrab culture, qualities and themes that are often overlooked or seen as second-rate in mainstream film discourse are king: prettiness, artifice, colour, eroticism, campness, queerness, girliness, glitter, and micro-gestures and expressions.” Read the full essay here.
Powell & Pressburger get the Pavan Bivigou video essay treatment in an exploration of WOMEN, ROMANCE & RED. First up, Women.
Red, red, red.
I never thought it possible that an Englishman could be so romantic.
