Just Don't Think I'll Scream: Montage & Consciousness
Fri, Jan 29
|Virtual Cinema
Frank Beauvais’s intimate essay film assembles excerpts from the 400-plus films the French director watched over a four-month period of seclusion. The resulting montage reframes otherwise incidental images into an indelible and immensely moving reflection on life, love, and loss.
Time & Location
Jan 29, 2021, 12:00 AM – Feb 12, 2021, 11:59 PM
Virtual Cinema
About the event
Just Don't Think I'll Scream (France, 2019). Dir. by Frank Beauval. In French; English subtitles. 72 mins.
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Frank Beauvais’s intimate essay film assembles excerpts from the 400-plus films the French director watched over a four-month period of seclusion. On the soundtrack, Beauvais speaks of the breakup that led to his retreat, the estranged father with whom he bonded over cinema just before his death, and the symptoms of our current cultural climate that make pressing on an act of resistance. Beauvais’s montage—composed of both international classics and obscurities—alights upon small but specific details, reframing otherwise incidental images into an indelible and immensely moving reflection on life, love, and loss.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn0KzSYmNI
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