BREATHLESS: FRENCH NEW WAVE TURNS 50

Australian Cinémathèque

Pierre Clémenti is best known for his role as the suave gangster in Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour 1967, but his work as a writer, filmmaker and activist is being re-evaluated today as a crucial creative contribution. Clémenti collaborated with members of the Zanzibar group in the 1960s, and he fully embraced the lifestyle revolution ushered in by the ‘underground’: sexual liberation, anarchist agitation, aesthetic experimentation. An early champion of DIY formats such as Super 8, his ‘diary films’ are illuminating.

It’s Only a Beginning - The Revolution Goes On

(Ce n‘est qu’un début - la Révolution continue) 1968

New Old 1979