The Mercer Island Sister City Association, the Mercer Island Arts Council and Aljoya will co-host this free French film night at Aljoya with Lance Rhodes, a University of Washington instructor of Cinema Studies, providing introduction and post commentary. Complimentary wine and cheese will be hosted by Aljoya in the lobby at 6:30PM. The 78 minute French film with English subtitles will begin at 7:30pm. This is a complimentary evening. For questions, contact Judy Leithe 206-232-5413.
In 1956, France's master filmmaker, Director Henri-Georges Clouzot teamed with his friend Pablo Picasso to capture as many aspects of the brilliant painter's working methods as possible. Clouzot innovatively placed the camera in front of Picasso while the latter worked, thus capturing astonishing reverse images of brush strokes and "bleeding" inks in volatile motion. The result is that Clouzot's film--the screen, the frame--become Picasso's canvas, and we find ourselves inside his prodigious genius as works of beauty spontaneously burst forth and are instantly crushed beneath the weight of new images, new ideas.