Cinema RITCS (Brussels) will be hosting a retrospective on the French filmmaker Jean Vigo (1905-1934). On 2 March, an evening screening of Vigo's three short films - À Propos de Nice (1930), Taris, Roi de l'eau (1931) and Zéro de Conduite (1933) - will take place. Wouter Hessels will deliver an introductory lecture.
On 3 March, Vigo's movie L'Atalante (1934) will be screened. CLIC researcher Florian Deroo will give an introductory lecture (in English) during this evening. Click here for more information and to buy tickets.
On 24 February, KASK Cinema (Gent) will also organize a screening of L'Atalante in connection to the launch of the book Barge Life (2024) by Florian Deroo who will also introduce the film (in Dutch) during this evening.
About Jean Vigo
During his short career as a director, Vigo (1905–1934) laid the foundations for the later French Nouvelle Vague movement. His work was characterized by poetic realism. He was the son of Miguel Almereyda, a notorious left-wing militant, Marxist, and later socialist, who was murdered in prison. Vigo himself did not live long either, dying at the age of 29 from tuberculosis.