Introductory PPT for Play

1. Cinema cent ans de jeunesse
2016/17
‘Le Jeu: Children and Play’

2. Recap
• CCAJ – since 1995
• 12 countries this year (Brazil, Cuba, Portugal,
Spain, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland,
Germany, Scotland, England, France)
• And Australia and India!
• Watching, making, ‘thinking’ film
• ‘les regles du jeu’: Exercises and Final Film
• Final screenings in Paris, London, Edinburgh
• Up to 50 hours, November – May
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3. Types of Play
Chaplin
Pretending
Adults as
children
Play and
transgression
Playgrounds,
real and
imagined
Games

4. Chaplin
Gold Rush
(Dance of the
Rolls)
Modern Times
(Roller Skating)
Mirror
sequence
(The Circus)
The Great
Dictator

5. Adults as Children
The Royal
Tennenbaums
Kikujiro
Celine et Julie
Go Boating
Lumieres:
Sack Race
Bunny Lake is
Missing
End of
Summer/
Dernier Caprice

6. Playgrounds
Mouchette
Recreations
The Red
Balloon
War of the
Buttons
Germany Year
Zero
(caution: nasty
ending!)
In
Construction

7. Play and Transgression
Mustang
Fanny and
Alexander
The Royal
Tennenbaums
Tomboy
Zero de
Conduite
Slumdog
Millionnaire

8. Games
Les Vacances
de m. Hulot
Forest
Gump
M.
Sonatine
Lumieres:
blanket tossing
Lumieres:
Sack Race

9. Exercises
1 - An individual exercise. Choose
a game that you like. Film it in a
documentary manner. Just show
us it in operation. This game can
be played by one or more children,
it can be a whole game or just a
moment of a game. It must be a
maximum of 2 minutes in length
and consist of one shot only.
2 - in small groups.
Two children are thrown out of a
class by the teacher. They’re put
into a small space. They make a
game out of what they find there.
Film their bodies, the space and
objects in that space. 2 mins max /
one shot or several shots, it’s up to
you.
3 - One person loses their spatial recognition - they get dizzy or what ever. This
is reflected in the acting and the way it is filmed. (The Wall of Death shot from
400 Coups). Film the character and the sensations that they are experiencing.
2 mins max with montage (as many shots as appropriate).

10. Final Film Essai
Make a film where the the story is interrupted at a
certain moment, when a character finds their
freedom through playing which allows them to
escape from the confines of their every day reality.
It allows them to fork off from their reality.
5 – 7 minutes, as usual

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http://blog.cinematheque.fr/100ans20162017/
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12. List of films cited
Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 197x
Mustang, xxx, Turkey, 2016
Zero de Conduite, Jean Vigo, France, 193x
The Gold Rush, Chaplin, USA, 192x
The Circus, Chaplin, USA, 192x
Modern Times, Chaplin, USA, 1930
The Great Dictator, Chaplin, USA, 1940
The War of the Buttons, Yves Robert, France, 1962
The Royal Tennenbaums, Wes Anderson, USA, 200x
The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse, France, 196x
Kikujiro, Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 199x
Bunny Lake is Missing, xxx, USA, 196x
End of Summer, Ozu, Japan, 1961
Germany Year Zero, Roberto Rossellini, Italy, 1946
Celine et Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, France, 196x
L’Ete de Giacomo, Alessandro Comodin, Italy, 2011
In Construction, Jose Luis Guerin, Spain, 201x