By

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

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Accompanying text

This video essay presents a study of three films, each set in Brittany, released over a 99-year time frame. It examines their visual framing of landscape, shows how the depiction of landscape shifts with developments in film technology, and considers how landscape shapes narrative.

FILMS
L’Homme du large (dir. Marcel L’Herbier, 1920)
Le Tempestaire (dir. Jean Epstein, 1947)
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019)

MUSIC
Original music by Dozi Ozovski, inspired by the work of Yves Baudrier and Léon Vareille

REFERENCES
Harper, Graeme and Jonathan Rayner. Cinema and Landscape. Intellect, 2010.
Lefebvre, Martin. “On Landscape in Narrative Cinema.” Revue canadienne d’études
cinématographiques / Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Vol. 20 no. 1, 2011, pp. 61-78.
Wylie, John. Landscape. Routledge, 2007.